He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply ...

Scientists have discovered a new bat virus in Brazil that shares a key genetic feature with COVID-19, raising concerns about ...

From medicine to agriculture and aquaculture, bacteriophages are poised to have a huge global impact. As viruses which target ...

James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died ...

The devastating retrovirus HTLV-1 has eluded scientists for decades. Overcoming chronic funding and other challenges, ...

James Watson, who helped discover DNA’s double-helix structure, has died at the age of 97 following a brief illness.

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...

Summary: University of Queensland researchers have achieved a scientific first by capturing the yellow fever virus in ...

University of Queensland researchers have captured the first high-resolution images of the yellow fever virus (YFV), a ...

A new method vastly improves on the existing approach for single-cell genetic sequencing, enabling scientists to read the genomes of individual cells and viral particles in the environment more ...

Researchers discovered how human astroviruses bind to a receptor on human cells at a molecular level, which could inform new ...