As humans, we often focus on viruses and bacteria because of their role in causing various, sometimes severe, diseases.

In a new study, researchers at Indiana University Bloomington have discovered a new way that bacteria can kill its ...

In a new book, a science journalist recounts the story of a lifesaving treatment for infection that scientists broadly ...

Researchers from the Technion uncover a novel passive resistance mechanism in marine bacteria. By reducing tRNA levels, ...

Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. This "race" can lead to a situation where antibiotics will stop suppressing pathogenic bacteria. Bacteriophages, natural "predators" of ...

Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages (or phages), and they have real potential to defeat antibiotic-resistant superbugs. There are even cases in which very ...

One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by stealing a gene from bacteria that originated in bacteriophage. Biologists inserted that gene into other flies, making these flies ...