Some tiny viruses, called deltaviruses, can only spread by relying on other viruses. A study published in Cell shows that ...

Scientists mapped the Bas63 bacteriophage in unprecedented detail, uncovering how its tail machinery infects bacteria. The structure reveals rare whisker-collar features and distant evolutionary ties ...

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 ...

Dear Doctor: Everybody is talking about the coronavirus right now, but I still don't really know what a virus is. How do they work? Why don't antibiotics kill them? Dear Reader: You're far from alone ...

Adam Lentz, a Ph.D. student in the DuBois lab, led a project to better understand the structure of human astroviruses. Human astroviruses are a leading viral cause of the stomach bug—think vomiting, ...