Across the world, only a few dozen people appear to carry a genetic glitch that lets them brush off viruses that flatten everyone else. Their immune systems behave as if they are permanently on high ...

You’ll probably remember the last time you had the flu, but what about that time you had measles – or was it chicken pox? Your blood knows: it keeps a record of every virus you’ve ever been infected ...

As a new parent, there are so many things to worry about, especially when a child gets sick. For young children, a common virus like RSV can unexpectedly and quickly escalate from a runny nose to ...

In simple terms: a virus is a tiny package of genetic instructions with a delivery system. Outside a cell it is metabolically inert. Once inside a susceptible cell, it redirects the cell's machinery ...

The pandemic has enabled us to study the details of how evolution happens – in real time. Scientists have generated more than two million genome sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, allowing us to ...

Now, sick of being caught on the backfoot, one team of scientists is spearheading a new approach to dealing with emerging diseases. The researchers want to catalog every single mammalian virus in the ...