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

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

A bacterial cell settles onto a nondescript surface. It is plump, healthy and functioning as it should. Nothing appears amiss ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

Research led by Lancaster University has discovered that a class of antibiotics—fluoroquinolones—can directly alter the ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." Scientists ...

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 ...

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...