You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8% of your genome actually comes from viruses that got stranded there. This viral detritus is a souvenir from our evolutionary past, a ...

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The scientific community is abuzz with the recent revival of an ancient virus, unearthed from the Siberian ice. The implications of this discovery have sparked significant debates about biosecurity, ...

Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on earth, where they can be found anywhere from soil to oceans to the human gut — and typically outnumber ...

Researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine studied Rhipicephalus microplus, a species of tick known to carry severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, according to a news ...

NEW YORK — Measles is rarely seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases continue to rise in rural West Texas. This week, an unvaccinated ...