A ferocious surge of flu cases is linked in part to a variant that has not been dominant in the past few years — resulting in ...

Scientists from the United States drew attention to the mutual evolution of bacteria and bacteriophage viruses on board the ...

Green and golden bell frogs used to be everywhere in Australia, until a deadly virus reduced their range by 90%. Then Anthony Waddle stepped in.

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 ...

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...

Amid a worsening respiratory illness season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently rolled back its ...

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 ...

A damaging cotton virus thought to be a recent invader has actually been hiding in U.S. fields for nearly two decades. New ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

This sexually transmitted infection is almost entirely preventable. Here's what experts say you really need to know to ...

Scientists found that the space station phages gradually accumulated specific mutations that boosted their infectivity, or ...

HEFEI -- An international research team has uncovered a critical link between common viral infections and multiple sclerosis ...