Showerheads and toothbrushes are teeming with an extremely diverse collection of viruses — most of which have never been seen ...

Sigal Vorzhev discovered the phage at the Israeli Phage Therapy Center (IPTC) of the Hebrew University and Hadassah-University Medical Center under the guidance of Prof. Ronen Hazan and doctoral ...

The Human Virome Program will analyse samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect ...

Researchers who have been given access to Google's new AI "co-scientist" tool are enthusiastic about its potential, but it ...

A newly discovered bacteriophage with the potential to save lives was named "KpRaz1" in tribute to a fallen soldier, the European Friends of the Hebrew University organization announced earlier ...

Creative Diagnostics, a leading manufacturer and supplier of antibodies, antigens and assay kits, has announced the launch of ...

With over half the cells in the human body being bacterial rather than human, and over 99% of the genes in the human body ...

Scientists took 10 years to figure out how one type of superbug gains its ability to infect diverse bacterial species. When ...

A Chinese team of virologists has found that this virus carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the new virus called HKU5-CoV-2 was ...

Because phages exert pressure on the bacteria they infect and some phage genomes encode virulence factors and toxins, a role for specific phages or communities of phages in human health seems ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and other conditions affecting the immune system can activate the John Cunningham (JC) virus, causing a potentially life threatening infection. The JC virus is common ...