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The zombie world of viruses could hold the key to evolution itself

Notorious for making us sick, viruses are weird, undead organisms – but new insights are revealing they may have created life's glorious complexity in the first place

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Doctors scramble to identify mysterious illness emerging in China

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African swine fever helps drive world food prices to two-year high

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Transmission electron micrograph of the Rabies Virus. This electron micrograph shows the rabies virus (bright green), as well as Negri bodies (pale green), or cellular inclusions. The rabies virus is a neurotropic virus that causes fatal disease in human and animals. Rabies transmission can occur through the saliva of animals. The rabies virus has a cylindrical morphology and is the type species of the Lyssavirus genus of the Rhabdoviridae family. These viruses are enveloped and have a single stranded RNA genome with negative-sense. Negri bodies are eosinophilic, sharply outlined, pathognomonic inclusion bodies found in the cytoplasm of certain nerve cells containing the virus of rabies.

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Improved rabies vaccine could be better and cheaper

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Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours

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Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours

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A smartphone app can detect tiny amounts of norovirus in water

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The MMR vaccine

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There have been more than 1000 cases of measles in the US this year

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Light pollution's effects on birds may help to spread West Nile virus

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HPV vaccine has significantly cut rates of cancer-causing infections

HPV vaccination programmes around the world have significantly cut rates of virus infection, precancerous lesions and genital warts

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Gene therapy

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Contaminated blood scandal: Could some deaths have been prevented?

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Genetically modified virus may shrink incurable brain cancers

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