Perelman School of Medicine team identifies previously unknown viral family that appears to be the second-most common DNA virus in human lung and mouth specimens.

In the mid-2000s, David Markovitz, a scientist at the University of Michigan, and his colleagues took a look at the blood of people infected with HIV. Human immunodeficiency viruses kill their ...

Ancient viral DNA in our genome not ‘junk’ but cancer ally, ... Although they can no longer produce functional viruses, ... examined genomic data from 21 types of human cancers using publicly ...

Scientists studying the history of viruses may be able to identify which strains have the potential to cause the next global pandemic. A study into virus family history has identified 70 virus ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Other types of viruses, such as influenza A, can alter the genomic structure of cells, but the characteristic had not been seen in a coronavirus before, Li said. Altering the genomic structure of ...

Five virus families that could cause the next pandemic, ... Coronaviridae have a very long RNA genome, ... Nipah virus appears to be able to be transmitted from person-to-person though close contact.

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help itself grow ...

Peruvoside, a plant-based compound that is commonly used to treat heart failure, has been discovered to be able to prevent up to 12 medically important viruses, all originating from different ...

The researchers tested their traps with several types of viruses—from Zika, to influenza to SARS-CoV-2—and found that they worked equally well on all of them.