When bacteria are under antibiotic attack, it is not "every man for himself." Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and ...

Research has revealed how bacteria rely on circadian clocks to control the spread of their multicellular colonies. The ...

For decades, biology textbooks and popular science writing repeated a striking claim: bacterial cells in the human body outnumber human cells by a ratio of ten to one. That figure, it turns out, was ...

Bacteria can pass proteins between themselves, which induces a dormant state that helps a small group of them survive ...

Discoveries may help to explain why some bacteria are hard to eliminate, and also point to potential future approaches to improving antibiotic effectiveness.

Four antibiotic compounds produced in Streptomyces bacteria attack multiple parts of an essential metabolic pathway.

Over the past two decades, high‑throughput sequencing has dramatically expanded our understanding of the gut microbiome's composition.

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

Roughly 15% of all cancers are attributable to infections, a percentage that soars in developing countries [1]. Among the pathogens recognized as having an etiologic role in cancer, viruses ...

Researchers have discovered how certain photosynthetic bacteria use a sophisticated quantum mechanism to increase their ...

Fusobacteria are normally associated with the spread of bowel cancer. But now the sensational discovery: the bacteria can ...