New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

Medical schools must make microbiology a prerequisite — to prepare students not just for school but for practicing medicine.

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have identified compounds that can fight off viral infection by activating a ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

MIT researchers identified compounds that can fight off viral infection by activating a defense pathway inside host cells. These compounds could be used as antiviral drugs that work against not just ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

The era of bio-digital convergence is upon us two decades after it was first predicted, and the merging of biology and ...

Kennedy Jr. has downplayed the effectiveness of the long-used vaccine and instead promoted the development of new treatments ...

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have identified compounds that can fight off viral infection by activating a ...

Again, it seems to be all about the dosage of the anti-CRISPRs, especially as the phage replicates its DNA in the bacterial cell. This replication will invariably lead to the production of ...

In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by the rules we thought biology followed. While sequencing DNA from a tiny ...