Bacteria get invaded by viruses called phages.Scientists are studying how bacteria use CRISPR to defend themselves from phages, which ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

While carrying out surveillance of bats in Brazil, scientists have identified multiple different coronaviruses, including a ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

Several studies show that a measles infection can suppress the immune system for up to three years, making people susceptible ...

Last November, results from the MITIGATE trial made headlines at ACR Convergence 2024 with positive phase 3 trial data for inebilizumab, an IgG1 monoclonal antibody targeting CD19, in patients with ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

Only recently has the ribosome - one of the oldest molecular machines in evolutionary terms - been recognized as an active regulator of gene expression at the level of protein biosynthesis.

Fred Hutch virologist Keith Jerome, MD, PhD, and evolutionary biologist Jesse Bloom, PhD, were recently elected to the 2025 ...

There is no cure for human papillomavirus, or HPV, a viral infection that affects nearly 80 percent of the population by the ...

A new study has uncovered a molecular mechanism by which rice cells perceive viral infections and initiate antiviral response ...