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Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They’re invisible to the human eye. They’re everywhere. And both can make us sick. Bacteria and viruses ...

Learn how plastic pollution is creating new pathways for antibiotic resistance to become an even bigger public health threat.

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AI can now create genome viruses in laboratories and redesign toxins to evade controls, raising biosafety alert and rise of ...

Peering through his microscope in 1910, Franco-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle noticed some "clear spots" in his bacterial cultures, an anomaly that turned out to be viruses preying on the ...

Plastic pollution does more than litter landscapes and oceans. According to a new perspective article published in ...

Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...

Each winter, cold and flu season reaches its peak. That leaves a lot of people dealing with coughing, sneezing and fevers. People often take fever reducers to lower their body temperature when they’re ...

Urban wild bees carry microbial signatures in their guts that reveal stresses of city living, from limited food to pollution ...

As a general rule, most people want to avoid viruses, which are at the root of illnesses like colds, the flu, chickenpox and many a stomach bug. But what about a virus that doesn’t make people sick — ...