Microbiology & Virology

17+ min ago   (1023+ words) Researchers reconstructed ancient versions of a bacteria-killing protein found in tears and breast milk, and some were more powerful than the human version. Tears, saliva and breast milk all carry a protein that holds iron away from bacteria, which need…...

7+ hour, 58+ min ago   (410+ words) Sep 13, 2026, 07:00 AM FR · ES · DE · PT Some shadowed areas of the lunar South Pole could keep microbes from Earth alive, despite an environment considered extremely hostile. This possibility emerges from a study conducted by researchers from NASA and the University…...

15+ hour, 58+ min ago   (363+ words) This week’s cover of the international journal 'Science' features a scene of 'rotavirus' invading a cell. Rotavirus is a virus that causes acute gastroenteritis, leading to severe vomiting, watery diarrhea, fever, and other symptoms in infants and young children. Viruses…...

5+ hour, 54+ min ago   (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...

5+ hour, 54+ min ago   (80+ words) Bacterial wilt, caused by the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum, is one of the most destructive plant diseases in the world, striking tomatoes, potatoes, bananas and hundreds of other crops. Once the bacterium establishes itself in a field, it is notoriously…...

8+ hour, 56+ min ago   (74+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet its two great subspecies have taken strikingly different evolutionary paths when it comes to fighting one of its most destructive diseases. A recent commentary published in Stress Biology by Yachun Su, Shoujian…...

9+ hour, 7+ min ago   (56+ words) A team of researchers in Japan has coaxed two bacteria working together to make one of the food industry’s most important amino acids directly from nitrogen gas, a feat that could loosen the grip of the energy-hungry Haber–Bosch process…...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago   (96+ words) Rice paddies are among the most productive agricultural ecosystems on Earth, feeding billions of people across Asia and beyond. Yet beneath the flooded fields lies a complex microbial world whose balance determines whether the soil stays fertile or degrades over…...

9+ hour, 48+ min ago   (707+ words) Detecting dangerous bacteria in a patient’s sample can take hours or even days, and the fastest molecular tests demand expensive laboratory infrastructure and highly trained staff....

10+ hour, 20+ min ago   (73+ words) A single microRNA molecule may help determine whether the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum thrives inside its host or succumbs to programmed cell death, according to a new study published in Acta Parasitologica. Researchers led by Yuanzhao Sun and Haoran…...