The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...

Reading recalls the subclade-K variant emerged towards the end of Australia and New Zealand's typical flu season, circulating ...

Researchers at Utah State University revealed new details about CRISPR immune system defenses, such as Cas12a3 systems, that ...

Researchers at Utah State University have reported a previously unrecognised CRISPR immune response in which a bacterial ...

Researchers say discoveries could expand the CRISPR toolbox and lead to more efficient, rapid diagnostic tools for detecting COVID-19, influenza, and RSV.

Subclade K, which is circulating in Arizona, has been dubbed a 'super flu' but some experts say that's not an accurate characterization.

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known ...

Iowa researchers found flu receptors in mammary glands of multiple farm animals and humans, suggesting H5N1 could spread via ...