In the eighties, the super nerds were called “Happy Hackers,” mostly eager to score points within the community rather than to steal stuff.

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health. By Carl Zimmer The viruses we know best are the ones that make us sick ...

Researchers are analyzing patients with ALS and dementia to figure out jumping genes are causing them to become afflicted with ALS.

Scientists have discovered that H5N1, the strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus currently spreading in U.S. dairy cows, only needs a single mutation to readily latch on to human cells ...