Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

In a recent article published in PLOS Biology, a team of 45 virologists, evolutionary biologists, bioinformaticians, and structural biologists from around the world arrived at a consensus on virus ...

The increase in high throughput sequencing technologies has broadened the known diversity of the virosphere. These technologies have enhanced the frequency and accuracy of viral surveillance. In an ...

Approximately 25 global experts in virology will review hundreds of proposals for virus classification and naming. These proposals involve grouping newly discovered viruses based on shared properties, ...