16-03-26 Viruses that infect bacteria are among the most abundant life forms on Earth. Indeed, our oceans, soils and potentially even our bodies would be overrun with bacteria were it not for bacteria-eating viruses, called bacteriophages, that keep the micr...

16-03-09 Researchers from Boston College, US, have revealed the global spread of an ancient group of retroviruses that affected about 28 of 50 modern mammals' ancestors some 15 to 30 million years ago. Retroviruses are abundant in nature and include human im...

13-11-17 MIT researchers have found a way to boost lithium-air battery performance, with the help of modified viruses. 麻省理工学院研究人员发现，转基因病毒可以大大提升电池的性能。 Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They ho...

13-10-11 Scientists have a promising new approach to combating deadly human viruses thanks to an educated hunch（预感，肉峰） by University of California, Riverside microbiology professor Shou-Wei Ding, and his 20 years of research on plants, fruit flies, ne...

13-09-03 There could be at least 320,000 viruses awaiting discovery that are circulating in animals, a study suggests. 研究发现，动物间传播的至少32万种新病毒有待人们去研究。 Researchers say that identifying these viral diseases, especially those that can spr...

13-08-28 A new study by Anna Maria Niewiadomska and Robert Gifford, of The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, reveals that reticuloendotheliosis（网状内皮组织增殖） viruses (REVs), which originated in mammals, spread to birds as a result of medica...

13-05-19 Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, according to a study published today, May 15, in the jo...

12-05-31 An international research team has manufactured a new protein that can combat deadly flu epidemics. The paper, featured on the cover of the current issue of Nature Biotechnology, demonstrates ways to use manufactured genes as antivirals, which disab...

11-10-11 Biologists have described only a few thousand different viruses so far, but a new study reveals a vast world of unseen viral diversity that exists right under our noses. A paper published on October 4 in the online journal mBio explores ordinary raw...

11-06-25 It's one of the most annoying things about the internet - hundreds of emails from bizarre companies flooding inboxes. 上网最让人恼火的事莫过于五花八门的公司发来的几百封电子邮件塞满了邮箱。 But now officials in Japan have banned spam（垃圾邮件） in a...