The first full-stealth computer virus. In 1986, Brain was developed by Pakistani brothers Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were annoyed at having their heart monitoring software copied for free.

Created by two programmers named Basit and Amjad, Brain was a boot virus that ran when a computer was booted up with an infected floppy diskette in the A: drive. (Remember when floppy disks were ...

the first computer virus to be released in the wild didn't have malicious intent either. Called "Brain," the program was created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi brothers of Pakistan as a method to ...

Repeated head injuries could reawaken a dormant virus in the brain, triggering the onset of Alzheimer's Disease and dementia, scientists have found. Researchers from Oxford's Institute of ...

Dormant viruses lurking in the brain could be activated by a head injury and trigger Alzheimer's, research has suggested. Studies have long warned that concussions and blows to the head may raise ...

the possibility that viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 could infect neurons or glial cells in our brain is less well documented, with reports that show contradictory results. Up to one third of COVID-19 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Zika virus, which is thought to cause small heads in babies, as well as possible brain damage, is likely to spread to every country in the Americas except ...

We tested this hypothesis and found that it did. The virus completely eradicated brain tumour cells in just three days 2, a result I had not seen in seven years of research and efforts to find ...