Researchers had been studying the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for decades without seeing evidence of an active virus within it -- until researchers not only found a virus in the alga but ...

For decades, biology textbooks have drawn a firm line: viruses are not alive. They lack the machinery to reproduce on their ...

Philippine health officials say there is no active Nipah virus threat in the country and they are monitoring the situation ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has found this summer’s first traces of active West Nile virus. MDHHS has found one bird in Saginaw County that has ...

A never-before-seen virus has touched down in Alabama, which health experts are sounding alarms about. The Camp Hill virus is ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at Zika virus, an illness spread through mosquito bites that can cause birth defects and other neurological defects. Zika virus is a flavivirus, part of the same family as yellow ...

HTLV-1 uses a silencer region and the RUNX protein complex to suppress its gene activity and stay hidden in the body. In contrast, HIV-1 lacks this mechanism, leading to active virus production and ...