A portable and affordable mobile diagnostic tool detects HIV viruses and monitors its management in resource-limited regions, utilizing a cellphone and nanotechnology.

Infectious Staphylococcus aureus diverts to its advantage a structure set up by human cells, in order to destroy and invade.

Overexpressing an miRNA precursor in cells increases the specific miRNA content in extra-cellular vesicles, a potential new mode of drug delivery vehicle.

The infectious agent of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been found in the eyes of deceased CJD patients, raising concern for eye exams and transplants.

A team headed by ICREA researchers Salvador Aznar Benitah and Fran Supek concludes that care should be taken with drugs that inhibit epigenetic factors.

Single-cell transcriptomics revealed 10-20% of cells in a kidney organoid were non-renal cells.

A single bacterial cell on its own is vulnerable to attack and like many living things they can benefit from safety in numbers. But bacteria take communal living to a whole new level, forming veritable civilizations - the bacterial biofilm.

As part of the host-pathogen arms race, viruses are continually evolving to evade the host immune response, be it from previous infection or immunity acquired through vaccination. Here we take a look at the processes of antigenic drift and antigenic shift.

Changes to the complex of DNA and the proteins that form chromatin are important drivers in many cancers. We explore the challenges and progress in the development of new therapies targeting epigenetic regulators.

When you go to the shops to buy the weekly groceries, it’s quite likely you’ll find yourself thinking about where your food has come from. Is this organic? Is that free-range? You are perhaps less likely to find yourself wondering, “Is this food fake?”

Bacteriophage (phage) are viruses that specifically infect bacteria. They have a two-phase lifecycle, residing in a dormant state within the host genome (lysogenic cycle) or hijacking the host cellular machinery for their own replication (lytic cycle). Here we will explore the important steps of the lytic cycle.

An effective way to increase crop yield is to minimize losses to pathogenic microorganisms by improving the disease resistance of crop plants. A recently emerging alternative to conventional methods for improving plant disease resistance is cold plasma.