Finland's first giant virus, Jyvaskylavirus, shows these viruses are more widespread than thought and play key roles in ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

There are 8.2 billion people in the world, and over two-thirds use mobile phones, and over half are known to use them in the bathroom and with soiled hands. Recent research has highlighted that mobile ...

"A key to antibiotic resistance might be the use of viruses to kill bacteria, however, the systems that bacteria employ to defence themselves against viruses are unknown. Understanding these ...

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses, says a new study. Lead author William Hayes, an ecologist at Loma ...

Despite these divergent responses, the functional overlap between bacteria and fungi ensures ecosystem resilience, allowing essential processes like nutrient cycling to persist even in highly ...

Phage therapy involves the use of viruses that target specific bacteria to treat infections. BiomX picked up BX211 as part of its acquisition of U.S.-based Adaptive Phage a year ago. BiomX’s CEO ...

The phages help eliminate the bacteria through a process known as lysis, where the virus, upon finding a bad bacterium, will infiltrate it and "hijack the bacterial machinery” to replicate ...

All life on Earth is classified within three domains — bacteria, archaea and eukarya — with eukarya containing all multicellular organisms within the four kingdoms of fungi, animals, plants ...

And it is all thanks to native fungi and bacteria. Using chemicals like insecticide sprays to control fall armyworm has proven difficult due to a number of natural advantages the insect possesses.