Author summary The Orthoflavivirus NS2A protein is a small, hydrophobic, integral membrane protein implicated in both viral RNA replication and virion assembly. However, how NS2A participates in these...

The successive emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with altered tissue tropism has progressively decoupled transmissibility from lower respiratory tract pathogenicity. Omicron lineages transmit exception...

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Spyros Lytras is one of four young scientists selected in 2025 to lead new research groups at the Institut Pasteur. He has headed the “Antigen Evolution & Design laboratory” 5-year Group (G5) since Ju...

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Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is an emerging tick-borne phenuivirus causing high mortality in humans. While the nonstru...

For cash-strapped and early-career researchers, archived data sets can fuel new science.

Hepatitis D-like satellite viruses, known as deltaviruses, have been recently discovered in a wide range of animals. These viruses are thought to expr…

Phylogenetic studies examining the origins, emergence, and spread of viruses have arguably been one of the most active and successful areas of evolutionary biology and form the bedrock of the flourish...

Bats are natural reservoir of viruses that cause severe disease in livestock and humans. Recent high-profile spillover events have directed significant atten...

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Respiratory virus genomic surveillance output is unevenly distributed globally. Here, the authors show that addressing this imbalance could substantially reduce the time to first detection o...

Abstract. Protein structure-based comparison provides a framework for uncovering deep evolutionary relationships that can escape conventional sequence-base

Jingmen tick virus (JMTV) is a single-stranded RNA virus transmitted to humans through tick bites and classified within the Flaviviridae family. It has been detected in various arthropods and mamma...

Pandemic preparedness requires vaccine platforms that are fast to produce, thermostable and suitable for broad deployment. DNA vaccines are well suited to this task but have historically suffered…

Nine in 10 Australian researchers had their “ideas grant” applications rejected last year, even as Australia’s medical investment fund sits on $5 billion more than it was designed to hold.