Roundworms harbor viruses, which could be responsible for these parasites' painful symptoms in humans, scientists theorize.

Scientists identified more than 600 viruses in samples taken from bathrooms in the United States. The viruses infect bacteria ...

New research shows that your toothbrush is teeming with hundreds of never-before-seen viruses. Here's what we know.

Your toothbrushes and showerhead are bustling with life, according to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in ...

The experts were stunned to discover that bathrooms, particularly showerheads and toothbrushes, are teeming with viruses.

RNA viruses have been discovered using a machine learning tool that researchers believe will vastly improve the mapping of life on Earth and could aid in the identification of many millions more ...

The warm, damp environments of your showerhead and toothbrush are the perfect breeding ground for microbes, and a new study ...

A new gene drive can copy and paste itself into the genomes of herpes simplex viruses in mice. The end goal is a version that disables the virus in humans.

Researchers at Northwestern University found more than 600 different viruses living on shower heads and toothbrushes.

From masses of data previously uploaded to databases, scientists have identified nearly 162,000 new species of RNA virus.

To find RNA viruses hiding in genomic “dark matter,” researchers took advantage of one thing they all have in common: the RNA polymerase enzyme.

Researchers have created a phage cocktail that could be used to treat antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections.