New research has found that six probiotic Bacillus strains are resistant to several antibiotics. Genetic analysis of other Bacillus strains has shown genes that contribute to antibiotic resistance ...

Infections by pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus bacteria cause many tens of thousands of deaths every year, and the threat of antibiotic-resistant strains, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus ...

Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have uncovered how Bacillus cereus works and how to combat it. The team found out how the bacteria interacts with the immune system, discovered ...

Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.

The only way to overcome multidrug-resistant bacteria is to design a drug that bacteria have never encountered. In a new study funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation, scientists are doing just ...

If you ever got sick and thought viruses were plotting against you, they probably are: Scientists think some viruses can “talk” to each other. “We found this phenomenon in viruses that infect bacteria ...

South African botanists have found evidence that the largest Cape geophyte genus, Oxalis, has developed a unique association with the bacterial genus Bacillus, that help it to fix nitrogen from the ...