Phages are viruses that infect bacteria and hijack the cell machinery to replicate. Phages exhibit two main types of lifestyle. The lytic cycle involves the expression of phage nucleic acids, leading ...

This video explains how viruses and bacteria cause certain communicable diseases to occur, how our bodies protect themselves ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...

The life sciences focus on patterns, processes, and relationships of living organisms. Life is self-contained, self-sustaining, self-replicating, and evolving, operating according to laws of the ...