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

Cockroach infestations don’t just bring creepy crawlers, they fill homes with allergens and bacterial toxins that can trigger ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...

Bacteria use multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria that cause colitis disable multiple ...

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

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

Tiny viruses that only infect and kill bacteria can help treat deadly antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections with ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

You spend a third of your life in bed, but have you considered what you're sharing that space with? Your seemingly clean ...

The microbiome-the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live quietly in our body-plays a crucial role in shaping ...

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

KAUST researchers discovered that D. acetexigens simultaneously activates three electron-transfer pathways previously believed to be exclusive to different microbial groups.