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 ...

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

Many pandemic viruses emerged naturally – but there’s one that most likely came from a lab - Research provides benchmark for distinguishing natural outbreaks from scenarios involving lab leaks ...

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

A Rowan University team led by Chun Wu, Ph.D., received the Zuckerkandl Prize for the year’s best paper published in the ...

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 of ...

Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential that jumped from animals to people were shaped by selection in a lab or ...

High-throughput neutralisation tests could lead to a better understanding of the evolution of human influenza.

Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.

The research, published in Science Advances, brought together scientists from Otago and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. The team closely examined the molecular structure of Bas63, a ...