The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human ...

University of Toronto researchers have made the first discovery of a virus that infects Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria ...

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 Modell of ...

The work, described in a preprint paper, has the potential to create new treatments and accelerate research into artificially ...

Researchers are calling for the conservation of teeny tiny organisms that normally get overlooked, and conservationists are ...

Stanford and Arc Institute used AI to design viruses that kill bacteria, sparking hope for new therapies and warnings over biosecurity risks.

Some viruses, known as bacteriophages, only infect bacterial cells, often destroying those bacteria in the process. Bacteriophages or phages .. | Microbiology ...

Viruses, often seen only as disease-causing agents, may hold surprising potential as natural allies in the fight against climate change. A new study published in Nitrogen Cycling reveals that soil ...

According to reports, these microbes were frozen in Alaska for almost 40,000 years. However, after thawing samples of ancient ...

A new virus, Brt_Psa3, shows promise against bacterial canker, a major kiwifruit disease. Isolated from a Portuguese orchard, ...

Here, biology kind of takes over. If the phage genome that the AI model generated is legit, the proteins will start to ...