Bacteriophages, the most abundant life form on Earth, infect bacterial cells and influence the structure of the microbial ...

The Human Virome Program will analyse samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect ...

Scientists continue to learn more and more about bacteria that exists naturally inside our gut. Researchers at Virginia Tech ...

Researchers from the Skoltech Laboratory for Metagenome Analysis, which is led by Assistant Professor Artem Isaev, and their colleagues from the United Kingdom have studied the BREX methyltransferase ...

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

Researchers have identified an ancient RNA-guided system that can target DNA, potentially expanding the genome-editing toolbox.

Showerheads and toothbrushes are teeming with an extremely diverse collection of viruses — most of which have never been seen ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — Scientists have developed an innovative solar-powered method to transform sewage sludge -- a by-product of wastewater treatment -- into green hydrogen for clean energy and single ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin ...

Polyphosphate (polyP) exists in all life forms; however, its biological functions in metazoans are understudied. Here, we explored Drosophila as the first genetic model to explore polyP biology in ...