A team of researchers led by Joshua Modell says they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain ...

Dr. McAdams, a physicist at Stanford, was struck by the way biologists drew figures filled with arrows to show how different ...

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Imperial College ...

Engineered bacteria reprogram tumor macrophages and direct copper into cancer cells, triggering cell death and systemic immunity without damaging healthy tissue.

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to ...

Pathogens are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. With the goal of developing new therapeutic approaches to ...

Pathogens are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. With the goal of developing new therapeutic approaches to ...

Bacteria can detect and respond to local cell-surface perturbations, but how they sense changes in overall cell shape and ...

Every minute, all around us, battles are fought on a microscopic level. Bacteriophages (also known as phages) are viruses ...

Researchers have discovered how 'pirate phages' hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for ...

Hidden oral bacteria may take refuge in artery walls, forming biofilms that evade detection and could help trigger heart ...

Everyday substances, including caffeine, can trigger changes in bacteria like E. coli that make antibiotics less effective.