New insights into a "friendly virus" that could pave the way for cutting-edge treatments for the potentially fatal superbug C ...

Select any virus below to explore its structure and biology ... Hosts of viruses include animals, plants, bacteria, fungi, and archaea. Many viruses have evolved to infect multiple kinds of ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact ... of a nucleic acid molecule that is surrounded by a protein structure. A bacteriophage attaches itself to a susceptible ...

“We’ve taken advantage of the evolution of viruses. It’s using nature versus nature,” author Vincent Fischetti head of Rockefeller University’s bacterial pathogenesis and immunology lab told ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." ...

heating food breaks the structure of germs, which makes them unable to function. Heat kills most food-borne bacteria and viruses, like Salmonella, which is a bacteria contracted from undercooked ...