Some viruses, known as bacteriophages, only infect bacterial cells, often destroying those bacteria in the process.

Viruses, like bacteria, can be important beneficial microbes in human health and in agriculture, researchers say, following a review of the current literature on beneficial viruses. "The word, virus, ...

University of Delaware undergraduate student Spencer Toth was always interested in the environment and biology, so when she arrived at UD and realized that she could combine both of her passions by ...

Professor Wendy Barclay is the Action Medical Research Chair in Virology and Head of the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College London, UK. She began her scientific career at what was ...

A. Water microbiology is the _____ _____. This is done to determine what organisms are present, and if they are helpful or harmful. B. The safety of water for drink and contact is the main ...

Susan Roberts Dubay came to UAB in 1982 and began a career in medical research in the lab of Dr. Eric Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and the founding Director of the UAB Center ...

The UAB Department of Microbiology will welcome Barney Graham, M.D., as its keynote speaker for the 37th Bertram M. Marx Endowed Lecture on Monday, April 28, 2025, at 3 p.m. in Cudworth 102. He will ...

For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even curing—the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve.

Can viruses trigger psychiatric disorders? A new study suggests yes. Accordingly, special disorders are associated with a high rate of infection of a specific herpesvirus. Purkinje cells are a central ...