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 ...

The film discusses the nature of viruses, including their structure, reproduction, and the diseases they cause. It explains how viruses are incredibly small and require a host cell to survive and ...

The discovery of giant viruses has changed what we thought we knew about microbes. Researchers have now learned more about giant viruses that can infect bacterial cells, so-called jumbo phages.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a journalist covering COVID-19, I’ve had a front-row seat to the pandemic. I’ve been overwhelmed with despair over the death and suffering. I’ve been numb, trying to keep up with the deluge of ...

Investigators have produced an assessment of the abundance of the viruses in the Milne Fiord Epishelf Lake near the North Pole. Less than 500 miles from the North Pole, the Milne Fiord Epishelf Lake ...