A new study has revealed that "junk DNA" descended from ancient viruses could play a key role in controlling genes.

The public discourse around the origin of the pandemic has increasingly been shaped by political agendas and conspiratorial ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich has unlocked one of the most significant ...

Mammalian cells are tricky evolution hosts. They grow slowly, contain large genomes, and regulate protein behavior through ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus ...

These findings underscore the evolutionary interactions between host species and their associated viruses. In this study, scientists screened 209 great ape museum specimens using high-throughput ...

Modeling viral evolution: A novel SIRSVIDE framework with application to SARS-CoV-2 dynamics Peer-Reviewed Publication Tsinghua University Press ...

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One evolutionary trade-off that viruses must consider is the concept of viral load. An illustration of coronavirus. The virus may have developed in response to human behavior. Kyoko Kojima ...

Above all, these viruses have an amazing evolutionary history similar to that of the herpes virus, which infects half of the world's human population, and of giant viruses, a completely distinct ...