Brevard is releasing sterilized male mosquitoes to combat dengue fever, Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a Health Advisory regarding outbreaks of New World ...

Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news. Some play a helpful, even critical, role in sustaining marine life. In a new study, ...

In India’s harsh deserts, spiny-tailed lizards subtly change diets with seasons, storing energy for winter and shifting food ...

Small RNAs are short RNA molecules that help determine which genes in a cell are switched on or off. Until now, it was assumed that the small RNAs necessary for pollen development originate in the ...

Once a seed germinates, it is committed to one location. Plants are sessile—stuck where they started out—forced to cope with ...

Nicole Steinmetz engineers plant virus nanoparticles into versatile drug-delivery platforms. This work expanded into cancer ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

Geminiviruses are a distinctive group of plant-infecting single-stranded DNA viruses that have a unique twin‐particle (geminate) structure. These viruses cause significant economic damage to a wide ...

Plant viruses harm crops, spreading via insects. New research shows a viral protein, βC1, suppresses plant defenses activated ...