For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the ...

Caltech researchers have reintroduced a classic technique to image the formation and growth of individual cells that make up ...

The microbiome-the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live quietly in our body-plays a crucial role in shaping human health by providing a variety of micronutrients necessary for vital ...

BEVs carry diverse molecular cargo that offers non-invasive biomarkers for early diagnosis and monitoring of PCOS and ...

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life. “I was quite shocked, truly,” said ...

The bacterium known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an unwelcome visitor in the human body. Serious infections can result when a ...

While microbes are everywhere in the world, and in our bodies, many are harmless. Others, however, can be very dangerous.

In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.

Antibiotics start working immediately by rupturing the protective cell walls of harmful bacteria, but you may not feel relief ...

Calcium, a mineral involved in wound healing, can strengthen the attachment between microbe and skin and make infections hard to shake.