Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

If nothing else, the recently released interagency report documents the vast amount of effort that has gone into unraveling the origin story for SARS-COV-2. There are four possible versions of this ...

With officials announcing the death of the first person due to the recently discovered Alaskapox, experts have raised concerns that the virus may have spread farther across the state amongst its ...

Events such as the World Cup could have facilitated the spread, scientists say. — -- It’s not just humans who can travel rapidly across the world. Viruses and disease-spreading insects and ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

The groundbreaking viral theory proposed by Professor Masaharu Takemura and Dr. Philip Bell, Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan, shows that the nucleus or control center of a cell actually ...

(AP) — Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting ...