In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that is forcing biologists to rethink how complex life began. The newly ...

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

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

The WHO has assessed India’s recent Nipah virus cases as low risk, saying there is no evidence of increased human-to-human ...

Brevard is releasing sterilized male mosquitoes to combat dengue fever, Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses.

Using single-cell epigenomic profiling of immune cells from 110 individuals, researchers show that genetic variation and ...

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

In chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the central debate remains whom and when to treat. The 2025 European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs)1 ...

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

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

A study published in Nature looks at genetic determinants of persistent Epstein-Barr virus DNA and associations with chronic conditions. Prof Lawrence Young, Virologist and Emeritus Professor of ...

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