Shipley Energy reports that improving indoor air quality is key to preventing flu spread this season, emphasizing ventilation ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...

Viruses are often seen only as killers—responsible for diseases like HIV, Ebola, and influenza. But what if we told you that ...

Ancient viral DNA in bacteria helps block new infections, offering a potential path to fight antibiotic resistance.

Taiwan's agriculture ministry said that gene sequencing confirmed the African swine fever strain found at a Taichung pig farm ...

diSArm clinical trial is that our phages injected intravenously can home in to the site of infection, penetrate biofilms, infect, and lyse S. aureus. Many deaths post flu, and most likely also ...

aState Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Guangdong Provincial ...

In the largest synthesis to date, researchers reviewed 155 studies linking viral infections, including influenza, SARS-CoV-2, ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

After decades of mystery, scientists have finally figured out the structure of a key herpes virus protein that is vital for ...

A new way to deliver protective antibodies against COVID-19 was tested in a Phase I clinical trial. Instead of injecting ...

For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the infectious invaders. Now, these evolutions may offer innovative ways for ...