But there is another component of the gut microbiome that receives less attention: viruses. Wherever there are bacteria, viruses called bacteriophages lurk in prodigious quantities. These bacteria ...

In fact, viruses are the most diverse and numerous disease-causing organisms on Earth, infecting animals, plants, fungi and bacteria - as well as humans. Scientists have estimated that if each ...

Scientists from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences found forty new freshwater viruses infecting aquatic ...

These first microbes would have been extremely simple. But were they viruses or bacteria? Scientists don't have a conclusive ...

Geologists suggest the catastrophic impact of "S2" delivered key nutrients to the oceans, prompting microorganisms to thrive Margherita Bassi Pathogens are more common in polar bears living in the ...