Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.

Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team of ...

A Pierce County animal shelter has suspended cat adoptions for three days after some stray cats tested positive for a virus. Metro Animal Services – a shelter at 1200 39th Ave. SE in Puyallup – said ...

On March 5 the Washington State Department of Health, via Whatcom County, ordered an emergency closure of recreational and commercial shellfish harvest in Drayton Harbor after illnesses were linked to ...

The next pandemic is not a matter of if, but when. Whether Indiana is better equipped to respond will depend on what we choose to remember and what we are willing to change.

He is not a villain. He does not scheme. He simply acts, with total conviction, on a reality he invented. And the world keeps handing him a bigger sword, even when all he knows is how to squish flies.

Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977 influenza outbreak, which was likely “sparked by a laboratory ...

A study has again concluded that the possibility of the coronavirus leaking from a laboratory is low. The research suggests that COVID-19 was a virus commonly found in animal hosts before spreading to ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...