The innovative use of DIY lasers to detect microbes and viruses has the potential to revolutionize medical diagnostics and ...

This virus, along with several others, had been inactive so far. Scientists hope to study its effects if the climate crisis ...

But now, a major step forward has been taken. Scientists at the University of São Paulo’s Medical School, at the Institute of ...

While investigating the many microbes that have colonized the human body, a team of researchers stumbled upon something strange: a previously unrecognized class of virus-like objects, which they have ...

Virus-based treatments are already approved to treat several types of cancer, and combining them with bacteria could make ...

Nicolás Rascován, a geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in France who was not involved with the research but did help ...

Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Sources: BSIP / UIG / Getty; Smith Collection / Gado / Getty. Conservationists pride themselves on protecting all of Earth’s life, not just the flashy ...

Sidelined by the discovery of penicillin, a special therapy could be set to return in a big way. A new study improves our ...

The virus has a fatality rate between 40% and 75%, according to the CDC. India's southern state of Kerala is currently facing an outbreak of the rare, but potentially serious Nipah virus with at least ...

The CDC is warning that drinking raw milk can lead to human infections from the bird flu virus. In a research report released ...