Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

The research, published in Science Advances, brought together scientists from Otago and the Okinawa Institute of Science and ...

A cat called Gizmo. Image by Tim Sandle. A cat called Gizmo. Image by Tim Sandle. Researchers from the University of Florida, including virologist John Lednicky, identified this strain during ...

Giant viruses might not be visible to the naked eye, but their presence in oceans could shape the future of marine ecosystems—and even human health. In a groundbreaking new study published in Nature ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread. A new study also shows that an already approved drug could help strengthen immune defenses -- though its ...

The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of biology. They carry genetic material, but they cannot make proteins on ...

Researchers had been studying the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for decades without seeing evidence of an active virus within it -- until researchers not only found a virus in the alga but ...

Five years removed from the onset of Covid-19's global sweep, research into another subset of the coronavirus has scientists worried about another possible pandemic. This virus originated in bats, as ...

On an otherwise unremarkable September day in 2014, Luca, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-obsessed 4-year-old, had a fever. Riley Bove, Luca’s mother, didn’t think much of it at first—a back to school ...

Viruses are tiny agents that can infect a variety of living organisms, including bacteria, plants, and animals. Like other viruses, the dengue virus is a microscopic structure that can only replicate ...