Secondary school students Misha Hegde and Mia Maurer are investigating whether special viruses, called bacteriophages, can be ...

Science is discovery and discovery evolve. Few discoveries have elicited as much excitement in the scientific world in recent times ...

Four faculty members at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have been elected 2024 Fellows of the American Association ...

A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of ...

A new published study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of venomous ...

New research has revealed an unexpected prevention and cure for cervical cancer by use of lactic acid bacteria and lactic ...

The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center will explore the potential of a novel, artificially designed, hybrid growth factor to regulate the metabolism of fat and cancer cells.

Our comprehensive search suggests that venom delivery systems fully analogous to those of animals exist among plants, fungi, protists, bacteria, and viruses. Thus, venomous organisms are far more ...

A research team has, for the first time in the world, revealed the identity and differentiation process of human cervical ...

Like humans, bacteria can be attacked by viruses. In the case of bacteria, these viral attackers are referred to as ...

Scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders -- by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and using it to 'vaccinate' ...

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." ...