Investigating microplastics in agriculture reveals their effects on soil microbes and viruses, crucial for developing strategies for ecosystem restoration.

A giant DNA virus pulled from a Japanese freshwater pond is forcing scientists to rethink how complex cells first acquired their defining feature: the nucleus. Named ushikuvirus, the newly ...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, numerous articles have highlighted a possible link between COVID-19 vaccination or infection and Herpesviridae co-infection or reactivation. The authors ...

Soil viruses control the dynamics and metabolism of their hosts, strongly modifying carbon and nutrient cycling as well as soil biochemistry. Warming specifically affects viruses and their hosts, but ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their potential use in a host of biotechnological processes to benefit humankind, from ...

A new study reveals how C210, a curcumin derivative, selectively reactivates Epstein–Barr virus to kill cancer cells without infectious risks, paving the way for safer, targeted cancer therapies.

ABSTRACT: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects over 90% of the global population, establishing latent infections in most individuals. Under specific conditions like inflammation and immune suppression, ...

The No. 4 Republican, a Harvard alumna with a fraught relationship with her alma mater, had a confrontation over campus responses to antisemitism that resonated across the political spectrum. By Annie ...

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) affects the liver and can cause acute or chronic illness. The virus’s life cycle involves entering liver cells and producing new virus cells to trigger infections in other ...

Lytic replication of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) produces abundant viral DNA and RNA to robustly trigger antiviral innate immune responses and inflammasome activation; however, the ...