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 ...

Researchers discovered that telomere phage is surprisingly common in Klebsiella, a type of bacteria that can cause pneumonia ...

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

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

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

For billions of years, viruses and bacteria have been embroiled in an arms race. In response to constant attacks by viruses known as ...

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

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have found that a little-understood virus lurking within harmful bacteria could be a surprising ally in the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections, ...

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, ...

A newly discovered bacterium wiggling about in the mudflats of the Oregon coast could advance a new era of bioelectric ...