Shamonda virus has been linked to a death in France, its first known human infection. Why disease experts see low public risk ...

Anthropic says Claude helped a scientist plan potentially risky bird flu research, a case that highlights questions about ...

Health authorities have recorded seven cases of West Nile virus contracted in Germany so far this year, with the infected aged from 28 to 83, a spokeswoman for the Robert Koch Institute for disease ...

A livestock virus that was first detected in Europe this summer can infect humans as well, confounding scientists’ ...

Humans and chimpanzees share almost all their genes. Despite this, our brains have developed in different ways. Researchers ...

Of all the places a gene active in human neurons could end up, a common virus that causes childhood skin bumps is near the bottom of the list.

Certain viruses attack bacteria and can sometimes clear antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers said they had tailored a ...

Scientists have captured virus-like particles assembling themselves step by step, revealing how a surprisingly simple process ...

A French man has become the first person to contract Shamonda virus, a disease previously only found in animals and spread ...

A study in Science Advances links an ancient virus to a switched-off gene in chimpanzees that helps human brain cells mature ...

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them—known as phages—coexist in soils, oceans and living organisms. Scientists have long thought this coexistence reflects a microscopic version of an evolutionary ...

French health authorities reported the emergence of the Shamonda virus in a human for the first time. This case involved a ...