Some are totally independent, while others prefer company. Salmonella and many other kinds of bacteria are of the social type: They can live and even thrive inside a host cell. But unlike us, these ...

Human papillomaviruses, or HPVs, can cause dangerous infections in the skin and mucous membranes and may lead to cancer.

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

At present, there are no approved antiviral drugs for Nipah and supportive care is the only option for human infections.

Spatial metabolomics is transforming our understanding of microbial systems by uncovering the localized molecular dynamics ...

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

This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology.

Zika virus exploits host cell autophagy to downregulate surface proteins AXL and TIM-1, which are essential for both viral entry and antiviral responses. This suppression, ...

Sometimes those human cell surface proteins have protective effects too. They can alert the body that the cell is infected, and that the immune system should get to work. But it seems that once inside ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...