Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away in ...

Fallout‘s Forced Evolutionary Virus, or FEV, is an artificial megavirus created by West-Tek’s NBC Division in the mid-2070s. It’s transmissible by injection, direct contact, or an aerosol solution.

A mosquito-borne virus circulating since the 1700s went unnoticed until genomic sequencing revealed its centuries-long ...

Thirty years ago, it was our common sense understanding that hantavirus does not and perhaps cannot spread from human to ...

Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the world ...

A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population. The work, published today as a Reviewed ...

Most animal viruses never become pandemics because they must overcome multiple barriers, including receptor mismatch, immune ...