More than a million people a year are already dying from infections caused by microbes that are resistant to treatment – it's ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

The Epstein-Barr virus is one of the most common and persistent human viruses in the world, according to the CDC.

Since mosquitoes carry malaria, prevention has long focused on preventing mosquito bites, such as with nets, and controlling mosquito populations with insecticides and other measures. Researchers are ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your ...

On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created a portable food safety device they hope will one day be used at ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Ness Ziona have used the platform ...

Pepper, a feline owned by John Lednicky, a virologist at the University of Florida, recently discovered orthoreovirus on a dead Everglades short-tailed shrew he had caught. Orthorevirus is a viral ...