Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

Effective vaccines dramatically changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, preventing illness, reducing disease severity, and saving millions of lives. However, five years later, SARS-CoV-2 is still ...

In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that is forcing biologists to rethink how complex life began. The newly ...