University of Oklahoma researchers have discovered that some bacteria in the gut have their own unique "weapon system" to ...

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, has discovered saarvienin A, a new type of glycopeptide ...

A joint research team from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Beijing Institute of ...

Scientists led by Karla Satchell, Ph.D., the Anne Stewart Youmans Professor of Microbiology at Northwestern University, have ...

An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm ...

Chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world's deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler, faster TB tests.

Tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each year, and kills more than 1 million annually. Once established in the lungs, the bacteria's ...

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique ...

Cancer scientists engineer a new type of antibody which could be used to boost the immune systems of patients fighting disease.

Living in a house made of fungi and bacteria may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers are now one step ...

The obstacles were produced based on micro-computer tomography reconstructions of bacteria-rich sediment samples. We characterized the swimming of the cells through these channels and found that ...

bonelike structure. “We’re not the first ones to biomineralize something and call it a building material. … But if you want to keep (the bacteria) alive for longer so that you can do more ...