Humans face hundreds of decisions every day. But we're not alone. Even the tiniest viruses also make decisions, and scientists are researching how they do so, to help lead to better treatments for ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new potential way to edit the genomes of bacteria in complex environments, by equipping viruses to hunt them down and insert the CRISPR gene-editing system. In nature, ...

Phages can sense bacterial DNA damage, which triggers them to replicate and jump ship. Design Cells/iStock via Getty Images Plus After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might picture a ...

Back in the 1970s, a Soviet physicist called Alexander Davydov came up with a remarkable theory to explain the way long molecular chains change shape. Davydov began by deriving an equation called a ...

Esther Lederberg, the pioneering microbial geneticist whose crucial discoveries were overshadowed by those of her Nobel Prize-winning husband, Joshua Lederberg, died Nov. 11 at Stanford Hospital of ...

University of Maryland, Baltimore County provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might picture a virus as a nasty spiked ball – a ...