Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses.

Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

Scientists have long known that bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, live in our gut, but exactly what they do has ...

Bacteria use a newly discovered system called Kongming to turn viral enzymes into a self-destruct signal, with big biotech ...

A research team has uncovered a previously unknown type of immune signaling molecule—a novel compound combining histidine and ...

Washing your clothing on high temperature cycles may not completely disinfect it, researchers have found, because washing ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Here's why there are such a wide variety of symptoms associated with meningitis and why not every form of meningitis is ...

Bacterial infection that thrives in wet soil and stagnant water has hit particularly hard in regions affected by flooding ...

Scientists built a model that allows them to diminish phage communities from a mouse gut microbiome -- and then bring them back -- without affecting the bacteria. On a test run of their model, ...