The scientific community is abuzz with the recent revival of an ancient virus, unearthed from the Siberian ice. The implications of this discovery have sparked significant debates about biosecurity, ...

Viruses are the most diverse and abundant biological entities: they are widely known, fast-evolving, and have adapted to be able to infect all life forms. Despite this, their origin and evolutionary ...

The SIRSVIDE model developed by Professor Jian Lu's research group provides a comprehensive framework for studying viral epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics. The simulation results reveal that ...

It’s flu season. You’ve probably already gotten your annual flu shot, perhaps coupled with another COVID-19 booster. For viruses like influenza that causes the flu, updated vaccines are required each ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Oxford have developed an artificial intelligence tool called EVEscape that can predict how a virus will evolve to become a new variant, ...

Rather than a slow, gradual process as Darwin envisioned, biologists can now see how evolutionary changes unfold on much more accelerated timescales. Using an accelerated arms race between bacteria ...

Dr. Peter Daszak and colleagues recently published a study on coronaviruses on pig farms in China and Southeast Asia and the threat posed by potential zoonotic spillover events into dense human ...

Environmental conditions are an important factor driving pathogens’ evolution. Here, we explore the effects of drought stress in plant virus evolution. We evolved turnip mosaic potyvirus in ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the Head ...