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

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health.

Addressing one of the longstanding challenges in gastrointestinal drug delivery, Virginia Tech researchers have transformed gut bacteria into tiny protein factories. These engineered microbes ...

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

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 ...

Pope Francis’ complex respiratory infection isn't life-threatening, but he's not out of danger, his medical team said Friday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Huge, bacteria-eating viruses could be a game-changer for antibiotics that currently struggle to fend off deadly infections.

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

Vatican authorities said Monday that Pope Francis has a complex infection in his respiratory system and will require more ...