Microbes that hitched a ride into orbit are not just surviving in space, they are changing in ways that give them startling ...

Your immune system is your body’s built-in defense network, working nonstop to protect you from bacteria, viruses, and other ...

New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

The gut microbiota is a complex community of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses and its activity and interaction with the ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

Antibiotics transformed medicine in the 20th century, but relying on them alone won’t carry humanity through the 21st. The pipeline of new antibiotics remains distressingly thin, and most drugs ...

Space-evolved viruses show enhanced killing power against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, offering new pathways for phage ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Wits scientists have identified a "microbial watchlist" of bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that could cause cancer.

When scientists sent bacteria and their viral predators, bacteriophages, to the International Space Station (ISS), they ...

Viruses infected bacteria differently on the ISS than on Earth Microgravity altered infection speed, growth, and mutations ...

Our gut is home to a micro-universe of tiny powerhouses, complete with their own genes and immune and metabolic profiles, ...