A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where will the next pandemic come from? One expert says his "bet is on viruses." (Getty Images/Science Photo Libra) (Getty ...

Live virus vaccines use a weakened virus to help your body fight the real disease. Some people, like those who are very sick or pregnant, should not get live virus vaccines. A live virus vaccine ...

In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that is forcing biologists to rethink how complex life began. The newly ...

In 1990, I finished my PhD on primate evolution and went to my postdoc in Davis, California, USA. It was meant to be on fruit fly ...

Key points Nipah virus is a bat-borne virus which was first identified in 1998. It is not present in Australia It can cause severe disease with high ...

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 ...

Nearly four years after COVID-19 emerged, public health experts already say it’s not a matter of if we’ll have another pandemic — but when. So Yahoo Life asked several experts for their take on where ...