Air pollution from cruise ships could be damaging the health of people living in port cities by increasing inflammation and susceptibility to viruses such as the common cold and COVID-19.

That, plus a slightly sloppy replication process, enable a viral lineage to, in a relatively short time, acquire mutations in one or more of its genes. A single random mutation can change a viral ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host's cellular machinery to make new copies of themselves. Herpes simplex ...

Air pollution from cruise ships could be damaging the health of people living in port cities by increasing inflammation and ...

Viruses play a major role in the functioning of ecosystems. They profoundly influence the dynamics of microbial communities, flow of matter and global biogeochemical cycles. Yet despite their ...