A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements ...

Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), biologist Jessie Vandierendonck has been investigating new, alternative ...

Microbes are masters of survival, evolving ingenious strategies to capture energy from their surroundings. For decades, ...

Ancient viral DNA in bacteria helps block new infections, offering a potential path to fight antibiotic resistance.

A cell’s “death fold domain” protects our bodies from infection at the risk of chronic inflammation, essentially “trading ...

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

While gut bacteria play an essential (if not always socially tactful) role in human nutrition, a wealth of recent research ...

A bizarre bacteria has been discovered with an ability previously thought impossible for its kind. This strange discovery could shine a light on how some of our earliest single-celled ancestors formed ...

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

Stunning images reveal for the first time how antibiotics pierce deadly bacteria’s armor. British scientists have shown how life-saving drugs called polymyxins puncture the defenses of harmful bugs.