Schrödinger later revised his view – around the 1950s – suggesting that life depends on free energy. Free energy is the energy that drives chemical reactions in living things. This marked a shift from ...

The United States has launched a new and advanced universal vaccine platform designed to fight viruses that could cause ...

The majority of these viruses infect microbes, including bacteria, archaea, and microeukaryotes, all of which are vital players in the global fixation and cycling of key elements such as carbon, ...

A former Oceanography graduate student, Christopher Schvarcz, sampled water from Station ALOHA 60 miles north of O'ahu, Hawai'i, and subsequently isolated dozens of viruses. Among them was FloV ...

One can also argue that large DNA viruses arose through a regressive process whereby once-independent entities lost key genes over time and adopted a parasitic replication strategy. Finally ...