As antibiotic resistance grows, scientists are turning to bacteriophages, viruses that target harmful bacteria without wiping ...

The innovative use of DIY lasers to detect microbes and viruses has the potential to revolutionize medical diagnostics and environmental monitoring. These new techniques offer incredible possibilities ...

A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They’re invisible to the human eye.

Cancer research has long looked at bacteria and viruses as separate tools for therapy. Now, researchers are showing that the two can actually work better together. A team of scientists has built a new ...

Researchers discover a hidden virus in gut bacteria that could explain colon cancer and help detect it earlier ...

Now, researchers have discovered a special chewing gum that may help those affected by head and neck squamous cell carcinoma ...

The microbes could surrender to the harmless virus, but instead freeze in place, dormant, waiting for their potential predator to go away, according to a recent study in mBio. University of Illinois ...

Scientists at Stanford University have discovered that DRT3, a unique defense system found in bacteria, creates DNA to ...

Maybe the first life on Earth was part of an 'RNA world.' Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library via Getty Images How life on Earth started has puzzled scientists for a long time. And it still does.