Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the virus itself. Named after the Chinese military strategist Kongming—who ...

Bacteria use a newly discovered system called Kongming to turn viral enzymes into a self-destruct signal, with big biotech ...

A type of virus thought to be a "mere curiosity" is plentiful in one common bacteria, and possibly others, a Monash ...

A virus long dismissed as a scientific oddity has been found hiding in plain sight, and it may help fight dangerous bacteria, ...

Researchers have discovered the first giant virus in Finland. The specimen demonstrates that such huge viruses are more common in northern regions than previously thought. Viruses are tiny. Even ...

Scientists have long known that bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, live in our gut, but exactly what they do has ...

A strange virus scientists once brushed off as a mere curiosity has now been found hiding in plain sight. Shockingly, it may ...

Scientists built a model that allows them to diminish phage communities from a mouse gut microbiome -- and then bring them back -- without affecting the bacteria. On a test run of their model, ...

Researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have for the first time in Finland, isolated a ...

A type of virus thought to be a ‘mere curiosity’ is plentiful in one common bacteria, and possibly others, a Monash ...

A recent study has revealed that a hidden virus is commonly found in the germs responsible for causing pneumonia. Researchers ...