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A new year might mean new viral threats. Influenza A is a perennial threat. The virus infects a wide range of animals and has ...

A new year might mean new viral threats. Old viruses are constantly evolving. A warming and increasingly populated planet ...

Recent findings suggest that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is involved in both causing multiple sclerosis (MS) and shaping its ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising viral shortcut that turns moving cells into delivery vehicles for infection. Instead ...

Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for ...

Learn how a newly discovered virus disrupts its host’s nucleus in ways that echo how complex cells may have formed billions ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

This is a summary of: Liu. H. et al. Viral RNA blocks circularization to evade host codon usage control. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09809-y (2025).

A virus relies on the host's translation machinery to replicate itself and become infectious. Translation efficiency ...

Dr. Gil Mor discusses sex-specific placental responses and long-term immune alterations from prenatal virus exposure.

Newly published interdisciplinary research led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and University of Maryland shows ...