Approximately 25 global experts in virology will review hundreds of proposals for virus classification and naming. These proposals involve grouping newly discovered viruses based on shared properties, ...

The gut microbiome, a collection of archaea, bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live in the human gastrointestinal tract, is known to have a powerful influence on our health and well-being that starts ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless “microgravity” conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the ...