As the world’s most infamous flu pandemic (often referred to as the Spanish flu) raged from 1918–1920, scientists had very few tools available to help them combat or understand the disease.

We cannot compare primitive organisms such as viruses with complex living entities such as plants and animals. In fact, because viruses are 'mono-unitary' organisms, the most plausible comparison ...

Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were wrong. Hundreds of thousands of viral mutations and multiple seasonal waves ...

How did viruses evolve? Are they a streamlined form of something that existed long ago, or an ultimate culmination of smaller genetic elements joined together? Aa Aa Aa The evolutionary history of ...

Schrödinger later revised his view – around the 1950s – suggesting that life depends on free energy. Free energy is the ...

It evolved like crazy. "SARS-CoV-2 so far has probably been even faster than influenza virus, which is really remarkable," says Jesse Bloom, who studies viral evolution at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus ...

“We’ve taken advantage of the evolution of viruses. It’s using nature versus nature,” author Vincent Fischetti head of Rockefeller University’s bacterial pathogenesis and immunology lab told ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, show that the emergence of ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, researchers show that the emergence of resistance can be understood in the ...