Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have revealed that bacteriophages use a small RNA molecule to hijack bacterial cells, a mechanism that had never been described before. A tiny viral ...

Pick two.” But a team from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has discovered a way to make vaccines that embrace ...

Every year, around 600 million people are struck down by foodborne illnesses. The culprits are often common yet dangerous bacteria, such as E. coli and Salmonella, that thrive in undercooked or ...

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to create a new virus to attack a colony of the deadly E.coli bacteria. The ...

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.

Viruses have shown huge potential in treating various kinds of cancer, but the immune response has limited their application to tumours near the body’s surface. Now, scientists have demonstrated that ...

You may think that a virus is a virus, and they all afflict living things more or less the same. Yet while it is true that viruses attack most everything on Earth, the viruses that do the vexing ...