This strange microscopic structure may whisper ancient evolutionary secrets.

Researchers grew nasal tissue in a lab to unlock clues about how your body battles the common cold.

Researchers have discovered that a virus living inside the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus significantly boosts the fungus's ability to survive stress and cause severe infections in mammals. Removing the ...

Did you know that mushrooms can get sick? It was in 1948, in a Pennsylvania mushroom farm operated by the La France brothers, that scientists first observed a mushroom malady featuring puny caps and ...

A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria. Image by Dr. Victor Padilla-Sanchez, PhD - Own work (CC BY-SA 4.0) A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within ...

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe case of the illness, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...

Ushikuvirus, an amoeba-infecting giant virus, joins the family of giant viruses that may have driven the evolution of complex ...

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 ...

A virus relies on the host's translation machinery to replicate itself and become infectious. Translation efficiency ...