It emerges that phage viruses, which infect bacteria, use small peptides to communicate with each other. This observation of intercellular communication also reveals how viruses make a key d... Read more

A protein required for sperm-egg fusion is identical to a protein viruses use to invade host cells. Sexual reproduction and viral infections actually have a lot in common. According to new r... Read more

OSTP Issues “Recommended Policy Guidance for Departmental Development of Review Mechanisms for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO)”. Today, the White House Office of... Read more

Viruses may be stealthy invaders, but a study at the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals a new, chatty side of some: for the first time, viruses have been found communicating with one anot... Read more

Once upon a time, it was thought that crop diseases affected only crops. New research shows, however, that a common wheat virus can spread and harm perennial native grasses. In the current i... Read more

Phage therapy, which exploits the ability of certain viruses to infect and replicate within bacteria, shows promise for treating antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. But the design of... Read more

Retroviruses — the family of viruses that includes HIV — are almost half a billion years old, according to new research by scientists at Oxford University. That’s several h... Read more

A woman had a cold virus injected into her brain tumor in an effort to eradicate it, making her the first person in the United States to participate in a clinical trial using this method, wh... Read more