Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team of ...

Besides serving as food for certain microbes, viruses perform some helpful functions that remain poorly understood. A ciliate, a type of single-celled microbe, swims next to Sphagnum moss, amplified ...

New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community. Ever since viruses came to ...

West Nile virus is the most common mosquito-borne illness in the continental United States and can in rare cases lead to a ...

Allen Cheng receives funding from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian government for research, including in influenza. He is Chair of the Advisory Committee ...