This creature blurs the line between viruses and cells, exhibiting remarkable characteristics that push the boundaries of ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

Unlike rabies, which causes roughly 59,000 human deaths annually, predominantly in Africa and Asia, human infection with bat ...

Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one species has been implicated in colorectal cancer ...

A study published in mBio details the vulnerability of coronaviruses to inhibitors of a small protein domain called Mac1, or the "macrodomain," found in all coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and ...

This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology.

A newly discovered organism is blurring the lines between living and non-living.

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

Twenty new viruses have been discovered within bats in China, "raising urgent concerns" that these diseases might spill over ...