A Rowan University team led by Chun Wu, Ph.D., received the Zuckerkandl Prize for the year’s best paper published in the ...

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

High-throughput neutralisation tests could lead to a better understanding of the evolution of human influenza.

For much of modern biology, scientists argued that viruses are not alive, pointing to a basic limitation: they cannot make ...

In 1990, I finished my PhD on primate evolution and went to my postdoc in Davis, California, USA. It was meant to be on fruit fly ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced recommendations for the viral composition of influenza (or "flu") vaccines for the 2026-2027 northern hemisphere influenza season. The announcement ...

Gene therapy has experienced an increasing number of successful human clinical trials, leading to numerous FDA-approved therapies based on recombinant viruses for rare disease, cancer, and other ...

Each year, public health officials monitor the spread of influenza to identify which flu strains need to go into that year's vaccines and where outbreaks will occur. But it can be difficult to predict ...