All non-African populations alive today carry between two and four percent Neanderthal DNA, which continues to shape our ...

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If you’re anxious about catching rare viral diseases like Ebola and hantavirus, experts say you should focus on preventing ...

Viruses are tiny — and sneaky. So sneaky that some play a deadly game of hide and seek. The "seek" part is all too familiar: They're always looking for ways to infect humans. Their ability to hide is ...

That bit of good news about a virus you’d normally not want to touch with a sterilized ten-foot pole was an early finding in Cadwell's quest to understand what turns out to be a huge diversity of ...

Oropouche virus disease, sometimes called Oropouche fever or sloth fever, is an illness caused by the Oropouche virus that’s spread mostly by biting midges. Oropouche virus is found mostly in a few ...

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, ...

For years, we've known that not all bacteria are enemies — some are actually good for us, and belong inside us. That understanding sparked a boom in probiotics science and a multibillion dollar ...