The human body is naturally equipped with defenses to fight off viral infections. For a virus to successfully infect it, it ...

The study identified 230 new giant viruses and 530 novel functional proteins, shedding light on their interactions with ...

Massively Parallel Ribosome Profiling (MPRP) enables rapid identification of viral proteins without the need to grow live ...

Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute and the University of Chicago have uncovered a mechanism that SARS-CoV-2, ...

Inspired by viral attachment to cells, scientists have developed a method for engineering ultra-selective multimeric aptamers ...

For a long time, scientists depended on luck to find new proteins. In 1840, for example, Friedrich Ludwig Hünefeld, a German ...

A highly transmissible new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is spreading in the United States, CDC data show.

Researchers found 230 new giant viruses in ocean samples. Some carry genes that hijack photosynthesis and metabolism.

Israeli researchers have discovered that a protein from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19, can cause the immune system to attack healthy cells mistakenly, the Hebrew University of ...

Giant viruses might not be visible to the naked eye, but their presence in oceans could shape the future of marine ecosystems ...