Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

Space-based experiments show that microgravity-induced mutations in bacteriophages may improve their ability to target ...

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

An international research team has demonstrated that Janus nanoparticles can disrupt the defenses of drug-resistant ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to live.

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. A lung pathogen grows stronger in iron-rich environments, but at the cost of its own virulence, ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

Two recent studies from the University of California, Riverside, published in the same issue of Gut Microbes highlight the ...