UCSF scientists are taking the first steps toward creating a new type of antibiotic that uses an unusual virus to defeat ...

Hundreds of different species of microbes live in your gut. In the future, one of these might serve a new function: ...

Jumbo phages use a protein shield to protect their DNA from bacterial attacks. A special handshake controls which molecules enter.

Jumbo phages belong to a group of viruses that attack bacteria ... they had to interact with Imp1. Living Pseudomonas bacteria infected by jumbo phages. The bright spots show the “handshaking” protein ...

Thanks to their bacteria-heavy "diet," these viruses could be the key to creating ... Researchers have been experimenting with bacteriophages as infection-fighting weapons for nearly a century ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

Pope Francis, who is spending his fifth day in hospital, will not take part in this weekend's Holy Year events, the Vatican ...

Vatican authorities said Monday that Pope Francis is suffering from a “polymicrobial respiratory tract infection.” Experts ...

Bacteria have developed many strategies to defend themselves from phages — the viruses that infect them. The Zorya defence system uses a previously undescribed antiviral strategy. An inner ...