Viral genome sequencing and sequence-dependent detection methods have been applied to the diagnosis and management of viral infections for decades. However, the introduction of next-generation ...

Your Comment article was a welcome admission that the safety measures taken when researching potentially dangerous viruses can, very occasionally, be inadequate (M. Ott et al. Nature 646, 31–34; 2025) ...

Astrovirus is a leading cause of pediatric diarrhea worldwide and is known to target mucus-secreting cells in the intestine, known as goblet cells. Research on this understudied virus done in UC Santa ...

In honor of this year’s World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW), Professor Ioly Kotta-Loizou discussed her research and experience in the field of mycovirology. Ioly is head of Crop ...

During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He and Fred Hutch evolutionary biologist Harmit ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade. By Carl Zimmer In the ...

For decades, the College Board partnered with college and universities to design courses for its sprawling Advanced Placement program, which is offered at about 16,000 high schools, making it the most ...

FRANKFURT, March 12 (Reuters) - Germany's foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China's ...

Researchers at the Chinese lab accused of leaking the COVID-19 virus have now discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide outbreak in 2020, ...

BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The Wuhan Institute of Virology was not involved in the creation or leakage of the COVID-19 virus, a spokesperson of China's foreign ministry said during a regular press ...

The kids are back in school, the year is winding down, and maybe—just maybe—you’re finding yourself with a teeny, tiny bit of extra time on your hands. Instead of plopping down in front of the TV or ...

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter will not only go down in history books; now the record-breaking superstar and her legacy will be the subject of a new course at Yale University. The single-credit course titled ...