Marine bacteria are key to determining whether carbon is recycled near the ocean surface or transported to deeper waters, but ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have identified a conserved small RNA molecule that enables bacteriophages ...

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

Research revealed how bacteriophages use a tiny piece of genetic material to hijack bacterial cells and make more copies of themselves.

A few decades ago, the idea of an HIV cure sounded unrealistic. Today, doctors describe a carefully documented case where the ...

Investigators from the laboratory of Derek Walsh, Ph.D., professor of Microbiology-Immunology, have discovered how human ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have reported evidence that standard chemotherapeutic drugs may selectively suppress ...

A tiny viral switch discovered by Israeli and American scientists could open a new front in the fight against ...

UMBC scientists uncovered how enteroviruses initiate replication by assembling a conserved RNA–protein complex inside host ...

Bird flu resists fever’s heat; a viral gene enables replication at high temperatures, bypassing immune defences.

In an article published in Nature Microbiology, scientists reveal the existence of numerous new lineages of mirusviruses, ...