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

A new approach to analysis traced the viral DNA across evolution to identify its positions in our genome and understand its ...

An team of scientists found a family of genome sequences known as “transposable elements.” They play a vital role in gene ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Evolutionary model for the origin of the major lineages of eukaryotic Bamfordvirae. The viral ancestor is inferred to have been an exogenous virus, while the rve-integrase was captured ...

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Dr. Kistler explained that “endemic viruses can be contrasted with epidemic or pandemic viruses, which have just spread into humans. This distinction is important because we expect different ...

To evaluate how this variation affects virus evolution, the researchers compared neutralisation titers with the growth rates of each viral strain during the 2023 flu season. They used a ...