The discovery started with an undergraduate class designed to teach students basic laboratory techniques, asking them to isolate phages from soil samples and study them using genetics. (Getty Images) ...

All viruses rely on the biological help of organisms to replicate their genetic materials. Most adapt themselves to one or a few organisms, mostly other microbes, and some have adapted to attack ...

Scientists continue to study one of the most crucial health discoveries. It's called the Vampire Virus because it attaches itself to other viruses and essentially makes copies of itself before ...

A number of “vampire viruses” have been discovered in soil samples in Maryland and Missouri for the first time. The existence of the eerily-nicknamed viruses has been known to researchers for decades, ...

Scientists continue to study one of the most crucial health discoveries, calling it the Vampire Virus. This is because it attaches itself to other viruses and essentially makes copies of itself before ...

Scientists have discovered a new virus they’re naming after the blood-sucking mythical creature because of the way it latches itself to other viruses — making the other viruses, themselves, sick.