Looking beyond jabs, sprays or tablets, scientists are thinking outside the box for delivering antiviral medication to ...

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 ...

We've long known that environmental factors—from humidity and temperature to trace chemical vapors—can influence how ...

Bacteria, which are susceptible to infection by bacteriophages, often carry multiple genes encoding anti-phage defense ...

Coronavirus and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are two kinds of respiratory viruses that can infect you and have similar symptoms. It can be hard to tell the difference between infections ...

The phages help eliminate the bacteria through a process known as lysis, where the virus, upon finding a bad bacterium, will infiltrate it and "hijack the bacterial machinery” to replicate ...

The friendly viruses, known as bacteriophages (phages), are viruses that selectively target and kill their host bacteria, playing a crucial role in regulating bacterial populations and influencing ...

Although we don’t know exactly what it will look like, someone has created a live mockup of iOS 19 and made it interactive via an App Clip. A user known as “Shane” shared the mockup via an ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has published a new tool to guide priorities for research, setting out which bacteria and viruses are most likely to cause a public health risk. They range ...

Coronaviridae, which includes COVID-19; orthomyxoviridae, which includes avian influenza; and paramyxoviridae, which causes the Nipah virus are classed as high risk for both epidemics and pandemics.

The list — which includes viruses that cause flu, Ebola and Zika as well as bacterial threats — aims to encourage targeted research into new diagnostic methods, vaccines and treatments that ...

Health officials have published a new list of viruses and bacteria they say pose the greatest threat to public health. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says its "priority pathogen" guide is ...