Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

By altering the metabolism of the skin, the Zika virus guarantees its own survival, resulting in turning humans into mosquito ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers believe they discovered a new type of life form living in the human body that were previously misidentified as viruses. According to a new study from bioRxiv that ...

The same mechanisms involved in COVID-related cardiovascular events are responsible for COVID-related myocarditis.

You, my friend, are what scientists call a "holobiont"- an organism made up of human cells and the multiplicity of ...

Lehigh Valley’s health networks are seeing abnormally high cases of the stomach bug that’s taking a large number of people ...

Zika transmission has been reported in more than 90 countries as the spread of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the ...

While many people may attribute their cold-like symptoms to common respiratory illnesses, Dr. Brad Sobolewski of Cincinnati Children's Hospital warns that a different virus, human metapneumovirus ...

Ancient viruses are embedded everywhere in the human genome. Estimates range ... The cells of early embryos can create any cell type in the body, and the activation of transposable elements is a ...

The funding will create the Vanderbilt-coordinated Virus Characterization Center. Under the Human Virome Program, launched last year by the NIH Common Fund, the NIH anticipates funding five ...

Bird flu, also known as the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, has been making the rounds in the United States over the ...