Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

Mimivirus is the largest and most complex virus known. Is it an evolutionary bridge between nonliving viruses and living organisms, or is it just an anomaly? Aa Aa Aa Viruses are small and fairly ...

However, viruses are dynamic—constantly evolving and changing shape, which can make designing antiviral treatments a challenge. But new research utilizes an innovative computational modeling approach ...

Perhaps the most complex virus ever created, it used various flaws in Microsoft's Web server and browser software to unleash itself without the user's knowledge. See Nimda. No relation to 9/11 in ...

This isn't necessarily new info, but experts hadn't observed this specific shape-shifting in the flu before. Viruses generally tend to mutate to become more infectious, explains infectious disease ...

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape—to become either spheres or larger filaments—to favour their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according to a ...