Viruses

Researchers in Tokyo discovered a strain of herpes contained in a "jumping gene" found in fish and humans—the implications are still unknown.

The Zika virus outbreak in the Americas hits on the things that risk-perception researchers know worry people most. Will that be enough to overcome people's fears about genetically modified mosquitoes?

Viruses are pretty damn good at evading our immune systems, so researchers co-opted their design.

Is culture just a side effect of the struggle to avoid disease?