Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune ...

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 ...

Disinfecting your home after the flu involves killing germs on various surfaces. This can help prevent other members of your household or those visiting your home from getting sick. Avoiding others ...

Biochemists at Caltech have identified how viruses have converged on a method for killing bacteria. The researchers have homed in on an underexplored small transporter called MurJ that is a vital part ...