Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

Pepper the cat is at it again. After his hunting skills helped virologists identify the first jeilongvirus in the United ...

H5N1 avian influenza has long been a concerning virus. Since its discovery in 1996 in waterfowl, bird flu has occasionally caused isolated human cases that have quite often been fatal. The absolute ...

Pepper’s last contribution to science was in May 2021, when he brought home a common cotton mouse carrying a type of ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

Black cats may be considered bad luck in many Western societies, however, one such sooty feline has brought good fortune to a ...

Scientists have identified a new strain of orthoreovirus, thanks to a catch made by a professor's cat. Orthoreoviruses are ...

A cold sore might seem like a minor nuisance. But behind that tingling lip is one of the world’s most widespread and cunning viruses—herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV-1. It infects billions of ...

Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...

This study has shown that HSV-1 is an "opportunistic interior designer" of human cells. | Genetics And Genomics ...