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, ...

Researchers are one step closer to understanding how some plants survive without nitrogen. Their work could eventually reduce ...

GENETIC interactions between humans and mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), is ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.