It was predicted that 27.4% of viruses were associated with microbial host populations, and the majority of the predicted vOTUs are linked to dominant bacteria and archaea. Metabolic predictions ...

A virus long dismissed as a scientific oddity has been found hiding in plain sight, and it may help fight dangerous bacteria, according to a study. The study focussed on bacteriophages (phages ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the virus itself. Named after the Chinese military strategist Kongming—who ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the virus itself. Named after the Chinese military strategist Kongming ...

bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses. For the bacterial species that inhabit your gut, there's a frenzy of viruses called bacteriophages that naturally infect them. Although they co-evolved with ...

Your gut microbiome teems with bacteria-eating viruses that have longed baffled scientists. Using a new mouse model that can eliminate and revive these virus communities, Virginia Tech biologists ...

and swimming in any natural water body presents the risk of coming into contact with potentially harmful bacteria and viruses,” she said. Toby Cox is on the Rising Waters team. Reach her at tcox ...

How these gut viruses interact with bacteria in the gut can eventually lead to cognitive dysfunction in older adults. The study's focus was on the role these gut viruses play in infecting bacteria and ...

can make bees more susceptible to bacteria and viruses. When, say, a plastic water bottle, ends up in a ditch or in a river, it disintegrates with the help of the sun, water and wind into ever ...

A pathogen is a living thing that causes disease. Viruses and bacteria can be pathogens, but there are also other types of pathogens. Every single living thing, even bacteria themselves ...

In a breakthrough with wide-reaching implications for infection control, scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a new paint-on coating that kills harmful bacteria and viruses on ...