Biofilm research sits at the intersection of microbiology, infectious diseases, and biotechnology, addressing the complex multicellular communities that ...

A research team at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson is developing a drug that works in combination with ...

Whether in the human body or on surfaces, bacteria protect themselves from outside attackers using biofilms. Physicist ...

University of Otago scientists are harnessing the power of peptides – the body's own tiny protein molecules – for a spray to help the red meat industry solve headaches around bacterial contamination ...

A team led by the University of Arizona's Michael D. L. Johnson is developing a compound that can smuggle an antimicrobial drug through bacteria's defensive shields.

The microbes living in sourdough starters don’t just appear by chance—they’re shaped by what bakers feed them. New research ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

JAKARTA: Laboratory tests have confirmed E. coli contamination in food and water served under the free nutritious meal ...

BGN head Dadan Hindayana said the agency aims to eliminate food poisoning incidents entirely this year. However, he acknowledged that since the start of 2025 there have already been 10 food poisoning ...

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

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

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