WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Biochemists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have made a surprising discovery about the inner workings of a powerful virus – a discovery that they hope could one day ...

The new coronavirus can live in the air for several hours and on some surfaces for as long as two to three days, tests by U.S. government and other scientists have found. Their work, published last ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is known for causing microcephaly, a birth defect in which abnormal brain development results in a smaller-than-expected head. A new study published Jan. 13 in mBio shows ...

New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...

Researchers at Chiron made virology history in 1987 when they discovered the hepatitis C virus (HCV), not by isolating viral particles, but by cloning and sequencing its genome. Subsequently, ...

A new study led by researchers at Penn State has uncovered how a widespread bacteria called Wolbachia and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm messenger ...

One virus can make millions of new viruses inside a human cell. Watch NPR's Robert Krulwich explain how that happens. Sponsor Message ROBERT KRULWICH: Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich, and to keep this story ...

Villain. Killer. Menace. Since 2020, scientists and public officials have used these words to describe SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. News articles, research papers and tweets repeatedly ...

Discovered in Denmark in the 1950s, monkeypox has been on the radar of health experts for decades. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the virus can present with various symptoms, ...