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

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

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

An international team of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

The protein called intelectin-2 plays another important role by reinforcing the protective mucus layer that lines the ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...

Researchers found that a common antibiotic-resistant bacterium prevents wounds from healing by chemically paralyzing skin cells rather than attacking them directly. Scientists from an international ...

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...