Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a sponge captures decoy molecules. Read the paper: A miniature CRISPR–Cas10 ...

Hundreds of new viruses living inside bacteria within our gut have been discovered in an international study led by Professor ...

The Centre for Molecular Biology, Central University of Jammu organized an expert talk by Prof Dr Raghuvir Ram Viswanatha from the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, USA. The lecture, ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered more than 100 new human viruses in 252 different gut microbes, ...

Using CRISPR-based genetic engineering, the team further identified mutations in viral genes that prevent activation, ...

Maren Denison, third-year student at the University of Iowa, was in sixth grade when she found out her lung function had dropped to 60 percent as half of her lung had collapsed and was scarred shut.

Research on bacteriophages in the human gut reveals their dormant nature and potential to impact gut microbiome health ...

Hundreds of new viruses living inside bacteria within our gut have been discovered in an international study led by Professor Jeremy J. Barr from Monash University's School of Biological Sciences and ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua Modell of ...

One of the most revolutionary tools in cutting-edge medicine is a molecular scalpel so precise that it can modify defective ...