As artist in residence on the UK Clinical Research Consortium's Modernising Medical Microbiology project, Dumitriu (pictured) works hands-on with live bacteria and viruses, and uses herself as a ...

Etsy genius Alicia Watkins has introduced us to an art medium we didn't know we ... the minuscule (but slightly terrifying) world of viruses, bacteria, diseases and other single-cell organisms.

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Using state-of-the-art tools, EPFL scientists have described a million-atom "tail" that bacteriophages use to breach bacterial surfaces.