Some viruses, like coronaviruses, have an extra fatty envelope to keep their genetic material safe. This is vital because like all living creatures, viruses aim to pass on their genes by reproducing.

Over 300 live samples of deadly viruses—including hantavirus, lyssavirus and Hendra virus—went unaccounted for after a ...

Over 300 live virus samples, including Hendra, Lyssavirus, and Hantavirus, vanished from an Australian lab in a serious ...

Hundreds of vials containing viruses have been stolen from a laboratory in Australia, prompting an investigation into the ...

But are we fighting a losing battle? Do we instead need to learn to live with the virus? Prof Carl Heneghan, the head of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University, says the ...

Researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa have discovered that a virus, FloV-SA2, encodes one of the proteins needed ...

A vaccine candidate against Lassa virus completely protected guinea pigs exposed to an otherwise lethal dose of the virus, ...