Cholera-causing bacteria are locked in an evolutionary arms race with a viral nemesis, according to a new genomic study.

University of Exeter scientists studied chemical communication by phages (viruses that infect bacteria). The phages assessed ...

The world is full of microbes, and we don’t know anything about many of them. Lots of these microbes, which include bacteria, fungi, and viruses... | Microbiology ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune ...

A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria. Image by Dr. Victor Padilla-Sanchez, PhD - Own work (CC BY-SA 4.0) A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Escherichia coli bacteria went up against viruses on the International Space Station. (Cavallini James/BSIP/Universal Images Group ...

In a new study of viral abundance over a short time frame in the Sargasso Sea, researchers found that almost all viruses with ...

A newly discovered virus hiding inside common gut bacteria may be linked to colorectal cancer, according to new research. Scientists in Denmark found that colorectal cancer patients were about twice ...

Viruses constantly emerge and evolve, with some posing significant threats to human and animal health, while others remain confined to specific species. A recently identified example of the latter is ...

A virus that has long circulated among shrimp and fish now appears to have crossed into humans, causing a persistent ...

When scientists sent bacteria and their viral predators, bacteriophages, to the International Space Station (ISS), they expected strange things to happen and they weren’t disappointed. In a ...

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 ...