Viral DNA that is usually dismissed when sequencing the human genome could help to uncover useful information about complex ...

Scientists in Japan have discovered a previously unknown giant virus, offering new insight into this enigmatic category of ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

The largest animals on Earth are turning out to be hosts to microscopic life that science had never cataloged. New research ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that quietly slipped into our chromosomes and never left. By tracing this viral ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has been infecting humans for at least 2,500 years. Some people inherited the ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

Baylor College of Medicine researchers are part of a collaborative research group with AstraZeneca and Memorial Sloan ...

The ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus is increasingly being linked to conditions like multiple sclerosis and lupus. But why do ...

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute and Mass General Brigham have built a generative AI model that creates short DNA segments ...

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to ...