Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They’re invisible to the human eye.

When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

Cancer research has long looked at bacteria and viruses as separate tools for therapy. Now, researchers are showing that the two can actually work better together. A team of scientists has built a new ...

As vital as vaccines are, they can be frustratingly selective about their targets. Scientists from institutions across the US have now developed a strikingly "universal" vaccine, which has protected ...

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, ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological ...

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve new traits that meet the challenges of every environment they inhabit, from ...

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

After months of being shut off, ultraviolet treatment used to neutralize viruses and bacteria in wastewater has been ...

Two people have died and 11 are reported seriously ill following an outbreak of "invasive" meningitis at the University of ...

Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They’re invisible to the human eye. They’re everywhere. And both can make us sick. Bacteria and viruses ...