The surprising discovery of entities smaller than viruses raises profound questions about what life is and how it got started ...

Ivan Zheludev, a biochemist at Stanford University and the first author of the paper, and his colleagues, classify these obelisks as viroid-like RNAs. Viroids themselves are only found in plants, so ...

Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

Virome analysis via high-throughput sequencing (HTS) allows rapid and massive virus identification and diagnoses, expanding our focus from individual samples to the ecological distribution of viruses ...

Introduction: Mayaro Fever (MF) is a tropical disease caused by the Mayaro virus (MAYV), with outbreaks documented in Latin America. Methods: A hospital-based fever surveillance in Leticia, Colombian ...