The beauty of physics at the cellular scale is part of what draws biomedical engineers and biologists like us to the field of mechanobiology: the study of how physical forces influence biology.

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them—known as phages—coexist in soils, oceans and living organisms. Scientists have long ...

Researchers have uncovered a new way bacteria detect viral attacks: a virus-produced enzyme cuts a bacterial sensor protein, triggering a self-destructing immune response. The discovery could lead to ...

A diverse research group including RIT students and a Rochester Regional Health scientist are working to develop an ear ...

It is not clear whether Shamonda virus poses a wider risk to the general public.

“This is one of the most common forms of bacterial immunity, so when we finally figured it out, it was a total eureka moment, ...

Certain viruses attack bacteria and can sometimes clear antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers said they had tailored a ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological Systems ...

When a virus enters a cell, its top priority is to replicate its genome rapidly, creating new viruses to infect elsewhere. The host has the opposite priority: to destroy the virus, ideally before it ...

An interview-led system-dynamics study in one Botswana neonatal unit mapped four reinforcing feedback structures associated ...

Viral and bacterial pink eye, both highly contagious, cause similar symptoms like redness, swelling, and discharge, but they differ in their causes and duration. Viral pink eye is often linked to ...

Bacteria detect viral attacks through a virus-produced enzyme cutting a sensor protein This triggers CBASS, a bacterial immune system causing infected cells to self-destruct CBASS activation relies on ...