Researchers have discovered a gene for a tandem potassium channel in an algal virus. The finding supports the view that giant ...

A 412-generation phage φX174 experiment found parallel evolution of full-length genomes that biases phylodynamic migration ...

A three-year, $1 million National Science Foundation grant will fund Portland State University's eXtreme Virus Lab in its ...

Newswise — Researchers at the University of Miami have identified a group of previously unknown viruses that bridge an evolutionary gap between viruses and cellular protein compartments, a discovery ...

While many of us try not to consider whether another pandemic is imminent, some members of the Bloom Lab in the Basic Sciences Division are busy thinking of nothing else. They’re hard at work doing ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, indicates that while the COVID-19 virus has developed rapidly since 2019, it has done so within limited genetic channels. These genetic limits have ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away in ...

When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way. Variants of influenza and SARS‑CoV‑2 can slip past vaccines and antibody drugs before scientists fully understand what has changed. A ...

Millions of years ago, a virus infected the ancestors of chimpanzees and left behind a genetic souvenir. Humans never ...