A groundbreaking study published in Nature's Communications Biology sheds new light on the relationship between bats and ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...

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Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), biologist Jessie Vandierendonck has been investigating new, alternative ...

Ten years after a devastating Zika outbreak in Brazil, new research has revealed another concerning side effect of the ...

In the ongoing fight against viruses, a new scientific approach could bring sweeping change. Instead of targeting the virus ...

Lee University students and faculty returned from an opportunity to present at the annual Conference on Bacteriophages in ...

Intracellular living therapeutics convert cellular signals into coordinated healing programs Get small and look inside. I ...

Taylor Brazelton, Ravi Mohan, Forrest Corbett, Kate Hill, Nikesh (Niki) Parekh, and David Tarico. (Provn Photo) Job ...

New research shows that viruses weaken honey bee queens, lowering pheromone signals and energy, causing workers to replace them.

Addressing the question of whether and how immune cells (macrophages) in the central nervous system (CNS) traffic out, ...