The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of puncture tools can be found everywhere: in mammals, snakes, birds, fish, insects ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research has become a major focus of global health and evolutionary bioinformatics. Despite ...

A mosquito-borne virus circulating since the 1700s went unnoticed until genomic sequencing revealed its centuries-long ...

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE and CIRAD researchers answered this intriguing question by exploring plant ...

Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

Biologists have discovered a previously unknown way for sea anemones to protect themselves from viruses, which proves that the evolution of animal immune systems is much more diverse than previously ...

Thirty years ago, it was our common sense understanding that hantavirus does not and perhaps cannot spread from human to ...

What does a hantavirus do inside its rodent hosts? How do these viruses move through animal populations? And how is it that ...

At just 23 years old, Tate McRae has already lived several artistic lifetimes. To the mainstream world, she is the powerhouse ...

Much of what is known about Ebola virus disease comes from outbreaks of Orthoebolavirus zairense and Orthoebolavirus sudanense. Although these provide important lessons for the current response, ...

Meet Fenix, a Husky with cerebellar hypoplasia whose heartwarming friendship with a wild sea lion named Wilbur has captivated ...