Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with an expert who says the number of ticks in the woods this fall has spiked.

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

A collaboration led by Max Delbrück Center and University of Bath has uncovered how ancient viral DNA controls a gene linked ...

In a laboratory in Florida, a house cat named Pepper has again been involved in the unanticipated discovery of a new virus as ...

It was the best of interviews, it was the worst of interviews. At times I was born aloft on the wings of enlightenment, other times I feared I would drown in a sludge of foolishness. On the one hand ...

Over 5 million people are bitten by snakes every year, according to the World Health Organization. Many effective antivenoms ...

New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...

When COVID-19 arrived, researchers tried to build evolutionary family trees—known as phylogenetic trees—of the virus. These ...

The study showcases an innovative and effective approach for large-scale genomic research of individual cells and viral ...

A new method vastly improves on the existing approach for single-cell genetic sequencing, enabling scientists to read the ...

New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...

Everyone knows that the fall brings flu season, replete with aches, pains and a new version of the vaccine. But why is cold ...