In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 continues to mutate. Scientists say that's likely to continue indefinitely, and the virus will ...

The man’s case didn’t give rise to any widespread variant, but it gave Gupta, with his HIV evolution background, the idea ...

SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth.

An effective HIV-1 vaccine must therefore elicit antibodies that can neutralize many variants of the virus. While broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) have been isolated from HIV-1 infected ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

The study highlights the importance of cosmic events in Earth's evolutionary history. Although the direct link between the supernova and viral diversification remains to be confirmed, the data show a ...

Mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile virus could become a growing concern in the UK and other northern European nations as ...

With its ancient age and rich biodiversity, Lake Tanganyika is an evolutionary biologist's dream. That 2003 study indicates ...