The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

Ancient viral fossils buried in our DNA are offering fresh clues about how today’s respiratory pathogens infect and spread.

When people ask their doctors about lupus causes, their answer can sometimes sound frustratingly vague. While they know that ...

Whether infection of cells by individual virions occurs randomly or if there is some form (s) of competition or cooperativity between individual virions remains largely unknown for most virus-cell ...

Bacteria-killing viruses built from scratch in a University of Pittsburgh lab could be a breakthrough in the battle against ...

Humans carry around a busy community of microbes that help run daily life. This microbiome breaks down food, trains the immune system, and competes with germs. Scientists just spotted something ...

Donze Communications’ Classic Rock 93.1 (KBDZ) in Perryville, MO, is mourning the loss of General Manager and morning personality Kevin “Kevy Kev” Russell, who died after a five-week battle with West ...

A Perryville radio station DJ has died from the West Nile virus, according to a social media post from the radio station. Known as KevyKev, Kevin Russell succumbed the virus, which he contracted about ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua W. Modell ...

According to the Placer Mosquito & Vector Control, a Roseville man has died due to the virus, which is spread by mosquitoes. There have been 54 confirmed human cases and five virus-related deaths this ...

A petri dish full of dead bacteria isn’t usually cause for celebration. But for Stanford’s Brian Hie it was a game-changer in his efforts to create synthetic life. The perpetrator was a type of virus ...