I'm on the hunt for a microbial saviour – a type of virus that can treat infections rather than cause them.We all know the viral bad guys – Covid, flu, norovirus, herpes, chicken pox, measles… the ...

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.

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

Pepper’s last contribution to science was in May 2021, when he brought home a common cotton mouse carrying a type of ...

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 ...

Discovered by Canadian and Japanese scientists, Sukunaarchaeum mirabile challenges the boundary between living cells and ...

The research advances our understanding of virus-microbe interactions in the environment and highlights the role of viruses in maintaining the stability of the human gut microbiota.