Rabies research unlocks how viruses do so much with so few proteins

New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...
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How Viruses In Your Gut Decide Whether You Stay Healthy Or Get Sick, And What You Can Do To Help

GUANGZHOU, China — Trillions of viruses are living in your intestines right now, and they might be secretly controlling whether you stay healthy or get sick. Most of these microscopic entities target ...
The Conversation

Viruses can work where antibiotics don’t – new research tells us more about how they fight bacteria

Nils Birkholz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
NPR

How do we halt the next pandemic? Be kind to critters like bats, says a new paper

Almost every pandemic we've seen over the last century has come from a virus that's spilled over into humans from an animal. "Generally, pandemics are seen as a biomedical problem," says Raina ...
The New York Times

Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points

Dr. Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of “Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19.” This article has been updated to reflect news ...
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Killer germs : microbes and diseases that threaten humanity / Barry E. Zimmerman, David J. Zimmerman

The origin of disease -- Extraterrestrial origins -- Spontaneous generation -- Evolution of life -- Germs and disease : Brief history -- Witchcraft, retribution, and the humor of it all -- Seeing the ...