For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even ...

While different strains of influenza virus can co-infect cells and form hybrid flus, virus co-infections have tended to be rare. The pathogens often outcompete one another so that one can gain ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus that causes the illness - SARS-CoV-2 - has had innumerable opportunities to mutate and change, and the virus has certainly taken advantage of those ...

Scientists in Japan have discovered a genetic "silencer" within the HTLV-1 virus that helps it stay hidden in the body, evading the immune system for decades. This silencer element essentially turns ...

Viruses constantly emerge and evolve, with some posing significant threats to human and animal health, while others remain confined to specific species. A recently identified example of the latter is ...