As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are ...

Bacteria use a short RNA guide to detect viruses and activate a self-destruct mechanism that protects the wider microbial ...

Bacterial patterns invisible to the eye reveal hidden information only with correct biochemical triggers, creating ...

Marine bacteria are key to determining whether carbon is recycled near the ocean surface or transported to deeper waters, but ...

A bacterium living quietly in the intestines of a tiny tree frog has done something cancer researchers spend careers chasing: ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global health crisis that makes common infections harder to treat and puts many medical ...

Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden published a study “Breaking barriers: pCF10 type 4 secretion system relies on a self-regulating muramidase to modulate the cell wall” in mBIO that describes ...

A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that the bacterium Ewingella americana, isolated from the intestines of Japanese ...

In a first-of-its-kind lab study, scientists prove that probiotic bacteria stimulate immediate and measurable changes in brain cell function, hinting at a new direct communication between your gut and ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...