Deep in the South China Sea, scientists from Chinese marine research institutes, including the First Institute of ...

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New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

The frigid temperatures expected across much of the country in the coming days may pose significant health risks for those ...

Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

For over a century, scientists have been fascinated by bacteriophages, the tiny viruses that naturally hunt and kill bacteria. University of Otago researchers are turning to these microscopic ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

Antibiotics transformed medicine in the 20th century, but relying on them alone won’t carry humanity through the 21st. The pipeline of new antibiotics remains distressingly thin, and most drugs ...

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Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...