Microplastics, like the ones pictured here, have been linked to several health concerns. Researchers from Boston University ...

They’re not viruses, not bacteria, and they don’t look like anything we ... Obelisks sort of look like viruses but unlike ...

Compared to viruses, bacteria are larger and have a more sophisticated structure that includes a cytoplasm, membrane, cell wall, and genetic material. Because they reproduce via binary fission ...

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 ...

A new part of the immune system has been discovered and it is a goldmine of potential antibiotics, scientists have said. They ...

“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 ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants ...

Later, the structure of these mysterious microbes ... for example bacteriophages - viruses which infect bacteria. There should, in theory, be a bacteriophage capable of killing every single ...

The dot in the middle is the shield created by the phage to protect its DNA after it has infected the bacterial cell. Image by Bondy-Denomy Lab Jumbo phages belong to a group of viruses that attack ...

Although James Watson and Francis Crick determined the double-helical structure of DNA ... which are viruses that infect bacteria (Figure 1). Bacteriophages are composed of only two substances ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Some phages follow a lytic life cycle where they inject their DNA into the host cell and hijack its mechanisms to reproduce. When the number of ...