Viruses

David Quammen, according to his website is  ”an author and journalist whose twelve books include The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr.

When HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans sometime in the early 1900′s, it crossed a gulf spanning several million years of evolution.

A few months ago I had a conversation with someone who had just canceled a long-planned trip to see mountain gorillas in Uganda. It wasn’t an easy decision, but she had just gotten over a bad case of the flu.

I have been fascinated with living things since childhood. Growing up in northern California, I spent a lot of time playing outdoors among plants and animals.

Lab work can often be a bit tedious. I often make the joke (not entirely innacurate) that my entire job is moving very small amounts of liquid between different tubes in a controlled manner.

A Chinese biotech partnership's vaccine success raises hopes for prevention of overlooked diseases, including hepatitis E, which claims 70,000 lives annually

A new generation of oncolytic viruses are entering late-stage clinical trials, repurposing smallpox and herpesvirus to take on tough tumors

Since its arrival on the continent, West Nile virus has significantly cut the population of at least seven species of North American birds, including the American crow, according to a paper published online this week in Nature .

Emptied of their infectious nucleic acids, viruses make surprisingly adaptable tools for nanoengineers