The deadly virus has spread alarmingly in Congo for months. Only now is the response taking shape. By Declan Walsh Photographs by Arlette Bashizi Since an Ebola outbreak was declared in Bunia, a ...

Giant viruses are so named because of the size of their genome. (Tumeggy/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers have ...

Bundibugyo virus is an uncommon species of Ebola-causing virus that has been linked to only two other known outbreaks ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have shown that giant viruses long thought to exist only as fleeting, free-living particles that can embed themselves permanently in the ...

Can plant compounds help fight Ebola? Learn how natural molecules are showing promise in early antiviral research studies.

(Qi Yang/Moment/Getty Images) Sound waves already used in medical scans may have a surprising new target: viruses. In lab experiments, scientists have demonstrated how ultrasound blasts can break down ...

Researchers discover that giant viruses can lie dormant within a multicellular host genome, reactivate on cue, and be inherited like a super-gene. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology ...

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) are the first in the world to characterize human antibodies capable of neutralizing measles virus. These antibodies bind to key sites on measles ...

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Cruise ships are convenient floating hotels by which to see far-flung parts of the world – but as an epidemiologist, I know they are also everything an infectious pathogen could want: thousands of ...

Researchers from A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a new method to study individual RNA ...