Methanogenic archaea are major producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas and biofuel, and are widespread in diverse environments, including the animal gut. The ecophysiology of methanogens is ...

Viruses play a major role in the functioning of ecosystems. They profoundly influence the dynamics of microbial communities, ...

Viruses can be designed to be tools and carrier vehicles for intratumoural immunotherapy. Their nanometre-scale size and shape allow for functionalization with or encapsulation of medical cargoes and ...

161,979 new RNA viruses have been discovered using a machine learning tool that researchers believe will vastly improve the mapping of life on Earth and could aid in the identification of many ...

Don't feel as if you're out of the loop if you're not up on the terminology of spillover viruses. In fact, one of the doctors we interviewed for this series on spillovers asked, "What is your ...

Some viruses that make us sick are cleared by the immune system within days, while others lurk in our bodies for a lifetime and reemerge later to cause new problems. How and why viral levels in the ...

Using genomics, evolutionary biologists test several hypotheses on the origin of viruses. New evidence suggests they may have emerged more times than previously thought. Corroborating the virus-first ...

Viruses are ancient. They have been infecting animals, our ancestors included, for hundreds of millions of years before the first humans ever showed up. And the legacy of those primordial infections ...

Some viruses, like the common cold, are a flash in the pan. They infect us, our bodies fight back — which is what makes us sick — and then they’re gone, until the next variant rolls along. Other ...

People may use the term “viral heart disease” to describe viral myocarditis. This refers to when a viral infection causes inflammation of heart muscle tissue. Inflammation is the body’s natural ...