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European Researchers warned that climate change could reanimate frozen "zombie viruses" and expose humans to lethal diseases. In November 2022, researchers from France, Germany and Russia announced that they had reanimated...

"We know very little about viruses and microbes in these extreme environments, and what is actually there," Thompson said. "The documentation and understanding of that is extremely important: How do bacteria and viruses respond...

At the virtual CES 2021, air purification R&D company CleanAirZone showcased its Bio-Based Air Purifier, a new product that it claims can even eliminate coronaviruses, including COVID-19, with natural biotics and enzymes...

By Robert Kernodle Figure 1. NASA satellite image showing the two most frequent meteorological scenarios where huge quantities of viruses and bacteria are deposited in the high mountains of Sierra Nevada, Spain and at a global...

The deadly virus Ebola has returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A new outbreak of Ebola stuck the northwest town of Bikoro with 21 suspected cases of the virus. Out of five samples sent to the DRC's National...

It's something you might expect Chicken Little to say: bacteria and viruses are falling from the atmosphere. But five scientists in Spain, the United States, and Canada found viruses are circulating in the atmosphere of our...

Scientists at MIT and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have identified a new family of ocean-dwelling viruses that can't be detected using standard lab tests...

The United States National Institute of Health (NIH) announced on Tuesday that it will soon end a three-year moratorium on funding research projects that aim to make pathogens more powerful than they are naturally...

Here's a startling thought: the human genome contains ancient viruses. Researchers recently detected a 100-million-year-old virus called a human endogenous retrovirus (HERV)—that would have infected our ancestors when dinosaurs...

After all the poor health outcomes caused by tobacco over centuries, it's about time the plant started doing something good. Scientists in the United Kingdom have developed a technique to infect relatives of the tobacco plant...

Humans have fought viruses for centuries. We struck a temporary winning blow with the discovery of penicillin, but now we're watching bacteria develop antibiotic resistance. But what if we were exposed to viruses that have...

You probably haven't thought about the bird flu in a couple of years, unless you're a virologist, but a new strain that resurfaced in China has the potential to be pandemic...

Microbes: our bodies are made up of them, our environment is teeming with them, and when they get out of balance, things go bad quickly. And while most of us are aware of the impact our diet and antibiotic use has on the...

Avoiding the worst germs isn't as simple as dodging hand rails and hovering over toilet seats. Did you know that there is 200 times more fecal bacteria on the average kitchen cutting board than on a toilet seat? Or that...

Avoiding the worst germs isn't as simple as dodging hand rails and hovering over toilet seats. Did you know that there is 200 times more fecal bacteria on the average kitchen cutting board than on a toilet seat? Or that...