A few months into his postdoctoral research at Baylor College of Medicine in 2021, Rafael Michita made a curious observation.

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

Even in death, cells leave a trace. Scientists have discovered a microscopic “Footprint of Death” that not only helps the ...

A team of researchers designs a ChatGPT that 'speaks in DNA', capable of creating new species that do not exist in nature and ...

When Sean Fletcher walked into Sam Biswas' Medical and Molecular Sciences (MMSC) lab at the University of Delaware College of ...

While largely unnoticed, phages do not harm humans. On the contrary, these viruses are gaining increasing popularity as biomedicines to eradicate pathogenic bacteria, especially those associated with ...

HPV, a very common virus, is found to hijack the body's cells to directly drive skin cancer growth, even after surgeries and medication.

Scientists have long known that a significant portion of the human genome is made up of the remnants of ancient viruses; these sequences ... | Cell And Molecular Biology ...

Herpes simplex viruses (HSV) are ubiquitous, double‐stranded DNA viruses that establish lifelong infections in human hosts. Central to their cycle is the process of membrane fusion, which permits ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). These have become household terms since the start of the global COVID-19 ...

Researchers describe the full molecular structure of the phage DEV. DEV infects and lyses Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, an opportunistic pathogen in cystic fibrosis and other diseases. DEV is part ...