viral discovery

Researchers access a wide range of tools and reagents to keep pace with seasonal influenza.

RNA sequencing technology lags far behind researchers’ ability to decode and understand DNA. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted this dangerous shortcoming.

A retrospective analysis of stored respiratory samples shows one patient could have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 weeks before the coronavirus was thought to have arrived in France, but a critic of the result questions whether the sample was contaminated.

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With more than 6,000 cases of the 2019-nCoV virus confirmed, researchers are hoping that studying the pathogen in the lab will help stop the outbreak.

Researchers analyze 146 samples from close to 80 sites, with nearly a third of samples coming from the Arctic Ocean.

Viruses that infect plants and occasionally insects appear to cause infection with a divide-and-conquer strategy, multiplying separate segments of genetic material in different host cells.

Lab mice suffering from inexplicable renal failure turn out to be infected with a hitherto unknown virus.

Researchers accidentally discover the first liver-tropic virus that infects non-primates.

Researchers find more than a dozen brand new viruses lurking in rodents inhabiting the Big Apple.