Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

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

Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

Scripps Research team offers insights that could aid development of phage therapies against Mycobacteria The pathogens which ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

Mycobacteria are the world’s most deadly bacteria—causing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills ...

Researchers at Pitt have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage–phage for short–that has allowed them to see for the first time the structural makeup of the part of the phage that ...

open image in gallery Hantavirus is a virus that spreads through the urine, droppings, or saliva of wild rodents, including deer mice, and can cause serious disease in humans (California ...

It also showed up to 75 percent neutralization of the HSV-1 virus and up to 94 percent of the HSV-2 virus – the two most common herpes viruses out there. Neutralization means that the virus is less ...

The highly contagious measles virus – which has claimed the life of a second child in Texas – has spread east, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting measles cases in ...

Public health officials this week confirmed two more measles cases in Colorado, including one person who didn’t travel, raising fears the highly contagious virus could already be spreading ...