The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

The virus compacts the human genome's size significantly and moves it towards the edge of the nucleus, freeing up space for the virus to set up a factory for its own purposes.

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion. Researchers discovered that it actively reshapes the 3D structure of the ...

In the world of viral research, uncovering a virus’s weaknesses is often a painstaking process that requires years of ...

Ebola. Read the latest scientific and medical research on the ebola virus and its containment.

The virus earns its keep by granting its bacterial host a competitive advantage over other strains. Lithgow then became curious if every susceptible K. pneumoniae strain gained access to the same ...