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) ...

In a remarkable discovery that challenges conventional understanding of viral behavior, scientists and students have uncovered a 'vampire' virus called MiniFlayer. Like Dracula, a 'vampire' virus ...

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 have come across something they’re calling the Vampire Virus. It’s been named after the blood-sucking entity due to the fact that the virus can latch itself to other viruses and make copies ...

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.