Some of the different types of host organisms that viruses can infect. Transmission is the passing of a virus from one host to another. The mechanism by which a virus is transmitted depends on ...

Overlapping genes are a fascinating aspect of viral genomes, where two or more genes ... Antisense Overlap: A type of gene overlap where one gene is encoded on the opposite strand of DNA from ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands ... can differentiate into all body cell types. By understanding how these cells regulate ancient viral elements, we gain crucial insights into ...

Five years removed from the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists around the world are still studying its effects and, more importantly, ways those effects can be mitigated in the future.

The biogeographic distribution of these viral genomes revealed their widespread presence in natural environments such as soil, wastewater, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, as well as their close ...

Remnants of ancient viral pandemics in the form of viral DNA sequences embedded in our genomes are still active in healthy people, according to new research my colleagues and I recently published.

More than half of the mammalian genome consists of remnants of ancient viral DNA known as ‘transposable elements’ ─ sequences ...