Researchers have uncovered how a disease-causing bacterium uses a single protein to interfere with the body's defenses in ...

Farmers, gardeners, and botanists have long observed that plant diseases tend to flare up during periods of high humidity, ...

Antibiotics, our infantry against bacteria, are losing their ability to fight against bacterial infections due to the rise of ...

A Université de Montréal study has found a previously unknown mechanism in bacterial reproduction that could be attacked by ...

The bacteria that cause deadly anthrax disease persist in the earth, a place their ancestors preferred over petri dishes and ...

In the rapidly evolving field of industrial biotechnology, bacteria have emerged as crucial agents driving innovation and sustainable development.

In their landmark 1961 paper on the lac operon, Nobel laureates François Jacob and Jacques Monod speculated that RNA might control gene activity in bacteria through base-pairing interactions. But once ...

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it may also help fight superbugs.

Some bacteria do not defeat antibiotics by evolving resistance right away—they outlast treatment by slipping into ...