Although smallpox is now ‘unfamiliar to the world today’ historian Elizabeth Fenn has written that it was ‘a misery commonplace in years gone by.’ For centuries, the smallpox virus and the gruesome ...

Scientists have recently unearthed a collection of ancient viruses from the depths of a Tibetan glacier, offering a glimpse into viral evolution and environmental conditions thousands of years ago.

Researchers have proposed a new evolutionary model for the origin of a kingdom of viruses called Bamfordvirae, suggesting a billion-years evolutionary arms race between two groups within this kingdom ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

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This article originally appeared on Undark. Pharmacies in the nation of Georgia have something ours don’t: vials of viruses in neat rows. People swallow or gargle the brews to combat routine bacterial ...

Ancient DNA reveals that childhood viruses lived with humans for thousands of years, reshaping how we understand human and ...

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Evolutionary model for the origin of the major lineages of eukaryotic Bamfordvirae. The viral ancestor is inferred to have been an exogenous virus, while the rve-integrase was captured independently ...