Researchers from the Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University in Denmark say they have for the first time discovered signs of large viruses living in the snow and ice on the Greenland ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have made a remarkable discovery: the first giant virus ever isolated in the country. Jyvaskylavirus, is detailed in a recent study published in ...

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It sounds like something from a sci-fi blockbuster: giant viruses are living in the Arctic ice. But the earth is not doomed - these supersized infectious agents could actually help slow the melting of ...

Images of Jyvaskylavirus. The virus particle is about twice the size of influenza or coronavirus. 30,197 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?30,197 people ...

Old Giant Pandoravirus yedoma holds the record as the oldest virus ever revived from permafrost, having remained frozen for ...

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For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant ...

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Giant viruses might not be visible to the naked eye, but their presence in oceans could shape the future of marine ecosystems—and even human health. In a groundbreaking new study published in Nature ...

The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Researchers around Matthias Horn and Patrick Arthofer from the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems ...

“This is a major discovery that substantially expands the complexity of the giant viruses and confirms that viral diversity is still largely underexplored,” Christelle Desnues, a virologist at the ...