Libusha Kelly receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Viruses are a mysterious and poorly understood force in microbial ecosystems. Researchers know they can infect, kill and ...

Different teams need to make the same conclusion multiple times before a consensus is reached and the finding can be built ...

The World Health Organization is cautioning that there are still a lot of unknowns about the coronavirus outbreak. What may be an attempt to tamp down speculation and conflicting headlines about ...

Viruses possess a formidable ability to enter our cells to multiply there, thus triggering diseases. However, a team from ...

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

Researchers have discovered new RNA bacteriophages, viruses that attack bacteria, advancing understanding of virus evolution. A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and ...

Two new studies have advanced our understanding of bacteriophages or phages, which are viruses that infect bacterial cells. Bacteriophages are crucial organisms that can be found in the gut microbiome ...

The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin report in Nature ...

A new study shows how the virus that causes COVID-19 is related to the virus that caused the SARS outbreak of 2003. The new family tree of these viruses could help predict which viruses circulating in ...

It was around the year 1590 when mankind figured out how to use optical lenses to bring into sight things smaller than the natural eye can observe. With the invention of the microscope, a new and ...

PHOENIX – Just as he was going to sleep one night in 2012, Robert Mock noticed a strange lump at the back of his throat. After decades of experience in medical sales, he was concerned by the nodule, ...

Over a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s still unclear exactly how it began. Dr. Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has become one of ...