Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They're invisible to the human eye. They're everywhere. And both can make us sick, even kill us. That last ...

Unlike West Nile virus, Shigella is a bacterial infection that spreads through contaminated food, water, poor sanitation, or ...

Penn State scientists uncovered an ancient bacterial defense where dormant viral DNA helps bacteria fight new viral threats. The enzyme PinQ flips bacterial genes to create protective proteins that ...

Cancer research has long looked at bacteria and viruses as separate tools for therapy. Now, researchers are showing that the two can actually work better together. A team of scientists has built a new ...

Bacteriophages (blue) infecting a bacterium. (Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers have made a ...

The world didn’t only just go through the COVID-19 pandemic, the seventh cholera pandemic is ongoing, and has been for some time. While many cases of cholera do not cause symptoms, it can lead to ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological ...

Every year, around 600 million people are struck down by foodborne illnesses. The culprits are often common yet dangerous bacteria, such as E. coli and Salmonella, that thrive in undercooked or ...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine have identified a possible way to make longer-lasting vaccines for respiratory viruses like influenza and the coronavirus that ...