The usual answer to this question (and usually for the purpose of passing your Biology GCSEs) is that viruses are not alive, because they do not complete all of the seven life processes ...

Were there already viruses on Earth when the first living ... Because they don’t have many features of living cells, they are not technically alive. Fossils can provide scientists with clues ...

Although most biologists would argue that viruses are not alive, some argue that viruses should be included in the tree of life. All organisms, they contend, should be divided into ribosome ...

Much of this has to do with the fact that viruses are technically not living organisms — they are infection agents, which are not "alive" like cells are, and as such they are more durable.

In addition, populations of living organisms evolve over time ... resident of an emerging eukaryotic cell. Where viruses came from is not a simple question to answer. One can argue quite ...

In Africa and South America investigators discovered 11 Viruses not identified with any disease. These are now studied because they are potentially dangerous and shed light on the behavior of all ...

A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of ...

Data derived from WHO. “Viruses do not respect borders, and the measles virus in particular is extremely contagious,” Dragan Jankovic, MD, technical officer for WHO’s Vaccine-preventable ...

But whereas bacteria are living organisms, viruses are not;instead they require a live host, such as a human, in order to ...

Not every virus is harmful to its host. Among the beneficent Viruses is one that causes a desirable streaking of tulips and another that enables an insect to feed on plants on which it would ...