If nothing else, the recently released interagency report documents the vast amount of effort that has gone into unraveling the origin story for SARS-COV-2. There are four possible versions of this ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

After three long years, the COVID-19 global health emergency is over. So says the World Health Organization, which made that declaration on May 5. WHO is the sole agency tasked with orchestrating ...

Two weeks before a researcher made the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus available to the world, another Chinese scientist quietly posted it to a U.S. government website. The earlier posting ...

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of ...

The groundbreaking viral theory proposed by Professor Masaharu Takemura and Dr. Philip Bell, Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan, shows that the nucleus or control center of a cell actually ...

A joint research team discovered and characterized ushikuvirus, a new giant DNA virus that infects vermamoeba. This image (a) shows the 3D reconstruction of the virus, highlighting its spiked capsid ...