Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a ...

Researchers have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers have thought. It also illustrates ...

Bacteria, which are susceptible to infection by bacteriophages, often carry multiple genes encoding anti-phage defense ...

While the scenario and the virus were completely fictitious, scientists warn the threat of 'zombie viruses' emerging from ...

Flu comes on faster than a cold. In flu, fever, chills, headaches, body aches and exhaustion are typically the first symptoms ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Experts make new recommendations on RSV and meningitis vaccines, but it's unclear what happens next - A federal panel of ...

Flu is a respiratory infection that resolves in a week or so However severe flu can last longer increasing the risk of respiratory complications like pneumonia Here’s all you need to know ...