The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of biology. They carry genetic material, but they cannot make proteins on ...

Evolving viral pathogens present major threats to global health, and their emergence and spread are increasingly influenced by global change. Climate change, urbanization, land-use change and ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

In an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Louise Moncla explained that her lab focuses on understanding “how viruses evolve and transmit across species and population groups” — including zoonotic ...