Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses.

Scientists have long known that bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, live in our gut, but exactly what they do has ...

In the high-stakes battle against respiratory infections from avian flu to COVID-19 scientists have uncovered an unlikely ...

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Industrial Technology Development Institute developed a nanotechnology that can detect bacteria, viruses, and even cancer cells. Featured by Martin ...

We found that most people don't clean their office desk until they start sticking to it, and the number of bacteria and viruses we found was really quite surprising. The germiest objects in your ...

In a new study, researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, show that the emergence of resistance can be understood in the mechanism of how bacteria build up defences against being infected by viruses. It ...

In a new study, researchers show that the emergence of resistance can be understood in the mechanism of how bacteria build up defenses against being infected by viruses. It is about genes in the ...

"A key to antibiotic resistance might be the use of viruses to kill bacteria, however, the systems that bacteria employ to defence themselves against viruses are unknown. Understanding these ...

In February, Democratic Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois delivered his annual State of the State address. While he spent much of his speech talking about his state’s legislative successes and ...

While some of these microbes cause illness and disease (such as bacteria and viruses), others are friendlier to us and help keep us in good health. Researchers have known for years that A muciniphila ...

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses, says a new study. Lead author William Hayes, an ecologist at Loma ...