Exposure to School-Age Children Ups Severity of Cold Infections
Exposure to school-age children raises the odds that a person with lung disease who catches a cold will actually suffer symptoms like a runny...
Viruses Help Scientists Battle Pathogenic Bacteria and Improve Water Supply
Infectious bacteria received a taste of their own medicine from University of Missouri researchers who used viruses to infect and kill colonies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa,...
New SARS-like virus poses medical mystery
Scientists are trying to unravel a medical mystery involving a new type of coronavirus, which come from that same large family of viruses that...
Study of Giant Viruses Shakes Up Tree of Life
A new study of giant viruses supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run amok, as some...
Biologists Find ‘Surprising’ Number of Unknown Viruses in Sewage
Though viruses are the most abundant life form on Earth, our knowledge of the viral universe is limited to a tiny fraction of the...
