The MicroIker group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has explored the diversity and distribution of ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

Emerging research on the benefits of probiotics has now extended to include their potential positive effects on autism ...

Identifying viruses associated with red tide can help researchers forecast the development of blooms and better understand environmental factors that can cause blooms to terminate. The study marks ...

But the shingles studies published in 2024, along with a host of new papers, add weight to an alternative decades-old idea—that viruses trigger the disease. Per this theory, plaques and tangles ...

“I thought, ‘What can I do for the next 20 or 30 years?’” He found an answer in SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, that was rapidly spreading around the worl ...

In recent years, our understanding of archaeal diversity has greatly expanded, especially with the discovery of new groups like the Asgard archaea. These archaea show diverse phylogenetic and genomic ...

Within 48 hours, wastewater testing can alert scientists if a passenger is carrying one of these viruses. Ginkgo shares the results with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and they're ...