Interactions among viruses can help them succeed inside their hosts or impart vulnerabilities that make them easier to treat.

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

A major event in the evolution of organisms on earth was the development of complex, multicellular life forms made of eukaryotic cells, which are thought to have come from prokaryotic cells. Studies ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a rapidly growing concern at the intersection of environmental microbiology and ...

Mpox is an infection caused by the monkeypox virus, a zoonotic disease that causes a painful, bumpy rash. It can be spread through direct contact with infected animals or the body fluids of an ...

It's called Metarhizium, and it's a parasitic fungus that lures insects to their death with an odorous compound called ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Bacteria rarely feel impressive in everyday life, but when you zoom in, all the way in, they dominate Earth in ways that are ...

Specialists from the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) reported on the evolution of arboviruses in Cuba during ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...