It is not only antibiotics but also certain viruses—known as bacteriophages—that can kill off pathogenic bacteria. However, ...

Superbugs have become one of the biggest threats to modern medicine. In hospitals around the world, these drug-resistant pathogens cause infections that are difficult, sometimes impossible, to treat.

In a major advance for infectious disease treatment, researchers from Monash University and The Alfred have developed a ...

H5N1 avian influenza is highly pathogenic and has been devastating bird populations worldwide. It continues to do so, and is also moving into new animals, like skunks, bears, raccoons, cats, and dairy ...

Key takeaways UCLA scientists discovered how certain mosquito-borne viruses breach the brain’s defenses, showing that ...

It's estimated that 90 percent of the biomass in the oceans is made up of marine microorganisms, a group that includes protists, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses. Microbes lives in some of the ...

Bats can carry some deadly human pathogens without signs of illness. A new survey shows that other viruses can still be bad for bats.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus hijacks a host protein called ANKLE2 to support its own reproduction. ANKLE2 is involved in brain development in the fetus and because Zika can cross the placenta and ...

Have you ever suffered from dry eyes and mouth? What if I told you it could be an autoimmune disease? What's more, there's a ...

It's time to develop more effective ways to control and prevent sexually transmitted gut infections, urge the authors of an ...

Microbes include bacteria, viruses, fungi, algae and archaea (single-celled microorganisms with a bacteria-like structure).

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...