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

Scientists used AI to design a completely new virus known as Evo-Φ2147. It is designed to infect and replicate inside ...

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

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at the University of Basel created a new test that tracks individual bacteria ...

Scientists have captured images of polymyxins, a type of antibiotic, disrupting and infiltrating the membranes of disease-causing bacteria. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...

UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubled the response to lung cancer immunotherapy treatment in mice and can now be made ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why some chronic wounds refuse to heal, even when treated with antibiotics. A ...

Bacteria have been around for billions of years. Could they have come up with complex behaviors that we just don’t understand yet? Could they have their own language? Their own culture? Their own ...

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.