The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of ...

Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is the warning of a new paper in the journal Science Advances, which concluded that ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team ...

A long-running debate in vaccine design revolves around whether a vaccine should be optimized to prevent the virus from ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...