Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own — and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease ...

The European Medicines Agency has recommended authorizing a twice-yearly injectable drug to prevent HIV. Scientists say this ...

CITATION: "Capturing the Start Point of the Virus-Cell Interaction With High-Speed 3D Single-Virus Tracking," Courtney Johnson, Jack Exell, Yuxin Lin, Jonathan Aguilar, and Kevin D. Welsher ...

Listen to this story New tool offers insights into virus-cell interactions . 0:00 / 0:00. Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, ... “Basically, we use a ...

The mimivirus is the largest virus known to scientists, about half of a micrometre (0.0005 millimeter) in diameter. It is more than 10 times larger than the virus that causes the common cold and ...

In a world first, scientists have observed one virus latching onto another. The interaction was captured in astonishing detail using a microscope that fires beams of electrons at its subject. The ...

Viruses are known to infect the cells of host organisms like animals, plants, and even bacteria, but they’d never been known to physically attach themselves to other viruses before.

One-in-six patients treated with the modified virus as part of a clinical trial saw their tumors disappear completely.

Peering through his microscope in 1910, Franco-Canadian microbiologist Félix d’Hérelle noticed some “clear spots” in his bacterial cultures, an anomaly that turned out to be viruses ...