Turkey dinners with family and friends may be in the rearview mirror, but COVID and influenza hospitalizations are both on the rise post-Thanksgiving — though less than at this time last year.

The virus was functional and able to infect amoeba. This isn't the first time researchers have found big viruses that have challenged what we thought we knew about the tiny invaders. Mimivirus ...

The colder months will see a number of nasty infections rear their heads, but Brits are being urged to protect themselves against the "big three ... syncytial virus (RSV) pose the threat ...

OPINION: Avian flu, once limited to birds, is adapting to infect mammals, raising concerns about a new pandemic risk. With ...

Study reveals how viruses invade cells by exploiting host proteins, with findings that may help in pre-pandemic preparedness.

The goal was to identify unknown viruses that might someday threaten ... and the consequences are so big, globally.” Researchers in Thailand catch bats at dusk as the animals leave a cave ...

Bristol-Myers Squibb has also done a big oncolytic virus deal, acquiring rights late last year to an “armed virus” targeting cancer from the UK biotech, PsiOxus Therapeutics, worth almost $900 ...

"These viruses were almost as big as bacteria and had pieces of machinery needed to make proteins," Caetano-Anolles said. "They were like an intermediate form between cells and viruses." ...

The BIG-LoVE (Utah Better Identification of Germs ... the risk that a household will be infected with respiratory virus. At one extreme, childless households are only sick for 7 percent of the ...

Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable spillover of a family of organisms called arteriviruses. In a new study, ...