A newly identified virus–cell hybrid structure allows viruses to spread faster and more aggressively by hitching a ride on ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.

Research published in Nature Communications found that the SAR11 bacteria, one of the ocean's most abundant life forms, are ...

Proteins need to fold into specific shapes to perform their functions in cells, but they occasionally misfold, which can ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It lives in deep-sea thermal vents, at temperatures above the boiling point of ...

Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical cues from bacterial pathogens and communicate this information to neighbors ...