Researchers at Ohio State found that a new way to mitigate climate change may come from observing viruses in an unlikely sea creature — plankton. The study, published June 9 in Science, states ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Marine virologists have found a novel virus living in the incredibly ...

The ocean is the largest region of the planet and remains a source of newly discovered species. But what do you do with a treasure trove of new viruses? A research team wrote in Science last month ...

Guillermo Dominguez Huerta, Science Consultant in Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Ahmed Zayed, Research Scientist in Microbiology, The Ohio State University, James Wainaina, Postdoctoral ...

The ocean contains a complex food web–the network of interactions among predators and prey that maintain healthy ecosystems and support populations of aquatic animals. At the base of this web are ...

A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University has uncovered that certain ocean viruses—specifically RNA viruses—may disrupt how carbon and nutrients are recycled in the ocean, potentially altering ...

The discovery of a strange group of viruses, dubbed mirusviruses, that infect ocean plankton across the globe may shed light on the origin of herpes. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Tiny ocean organisms like algae, amoebas, and flagellates are key to the marine food chain, and giant viruses that infect them can affect how they grow and survive. In some cases, these viruses may ...

Mapping out where these RNA viruses are found globally can help scientists understand how they interact with organisms driving the planet's ecological processes. DevizK via Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

How can ocean viruses influence the global carbon cycle? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers from Rutgers University and Bar-Ilan ...

A UA professor and his students are diving into a world of ocean viruses to learn how they affect microbes, the producers of half of the world’s oxygen. Matthew Sullivan, an assistant professor in the ...

Researchers have completed an analysis of ocean water from all over the globe and found thousands of previously undiscovered viruses. The study focused on RNA viruses, like COVID, which can replicate ...