More information: Benjamin Minch et al, Expansion of the genomic and functional diversity of global ocean giant viruses, npj Viruses (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44298-025-00122-z ...

But it makes sense to me that having viruses around, what we can say with a fair amount of accuracy is because viruses require the host cell to make more copies of itself, there's no way it's silent.

Time-binned PALM super-resolution movie of EGFR dynamics at the virus-binding site. EGFR-mEos3.2 localizations from a live-cell acquisition were rendered using 6 sec time binning. The position of ...

When exposed to sunlight, viruses in water survived less than 24 hours on a sunny day. But on cloudy days, they remained viable for around 2.5 days.

But healthy people are rife with viruses that don’t make us ill. Scientists estimate that tens of trillions of viruses live inside of us, though they’ve identified just a fraction of them.

Hundreds of vials containing live viruses have gone missing from a laboratory in Australia, sparking an investigation. Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls announced today that 323 samples of ...

This doesn't help settle the matter of whether viruses or bacteria emerged first, however, because that same data suggests the first cells were already living in an ecosystem teeming with viruses.

The researchers now plan to explore whether the viruses drive any symptoms tied to these parasitic worms. O. volvulus, for example, has been implicated in onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE ...

But before you throw out your toothbrush or take apart your shower, keep in mind that the vast majority of viruses Hartmann and her team found were specific species known as bacteriophages, or ...

Most of the viruses, which aren’t harmful to humans, came from the toothbrushes, and many hadn’t been described before. “That’s wild, it just underscores how much novel stuff is out there ...