Viruses have no metabolism of their own and must therefore infect host cells in order to replicate. Contact between the virus and the cell surface is a crucial first step, which can also prevent ...
Old Giant Pandoravirus yedoma holds the record as the oldest virus ever revived from permafrost, having remained frozen for ...
The COVID-19 pandemic led to heightened public interest in learning about viruses and how they can cause diseases. There has been a lot of focus on communicating virology concepts to the general ...
In a lab far from the Arctic, a virus that had been locked in ice for tens of thousands of years was coaxed back into ...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday its analysis of samples from the first severe case of bird flu in the country last week showed mutations not seen in samples from an ...