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

A type of virus thought to be a "mere curiosity" is plentiful in one common bacteria, and possibly others, a Monash ...

Researchers discovered that telomere phage is surprisingly common in Klebsiella, a type of bacteria that can cause pneumonia ...

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

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

A virus long dismissed as a scientific oddity has been found hiding in plain sight, and it may help fight dangerous bacteria, ...

Bacteria use a newly discovered system called Kongming to turn viral enzymes into a self-destruct signal, with big biotech ...

Scientists built a model that allows them to diminish phage communities from a mouse gut microbiome -- and then bring them back -- without affecting the bacteria. On a test run of their model, ...

A newly discovered bacterium wiggling about in the mudflats of the Oregon coast could advance a new era of bioelectric ...

The first giant virus to be identified, called Mimivirus (short for microbe mimicking virus ), was discovered in 2003 inside ...

The country has been hit by a deadly bacterial outbreak after 30 years. Anthrax is a serious bacterial infection caused by ...