Microorganisms, especially viruses, cause disease in both humans and animals.
Environmental chemical pollutants including microplastics, pesticides, antibiotic sand …

Bacteriophages of thermophiles are of increasing interest owing to their important roles in
many biogeochemical, ecological processes and in biotechnology applications, including …

The host spectrum of viruses is quite diverse, as they can sustainedly infect a few species to
several phyla. When confronted with a new host, a virus may even infect it and transmit …

ABSTRACT The Virus-X—Viral Metagenomics for Innovation Value—project was a scientific
expedition to explore and exploit uncharted territory of genetic diversity in extreme natural …

Climate change is inducing wide-scale permafrost thaw in the Arctic and subarctic, triggering
concerns that long-dormant pathogens could reemerge from the thawing ground and initiate …

Protein nanomaterials are well-defined, hollow protein nanoparticles comprised of virus
capsids, virus-like particles, ferritin, heat shock proteins, chaperonins and many more …

Soda lake environments are known to be variable and can have distinct differences
according to geographical location. In this study, we investigated the effects of different …

Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, and yet, they have not received
enough consideration in astrobiology. Viruses are also extraordinarily diverse, which is …

ABSTRACT The dried-out Aral Sea basin represents an extreme environment due to a man-
made ecological disaster. Studies conducted in this unique environment revealed high …

Overcoming lysogenization defect (OLD) proteins are a conserved family of ATP‐powered
nucleases that function in anti‐phage defense. Recent bioinformatic, genetic, and …