Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

"The UN estimates that by 2050, common bacterial infections could kill more people than cancer," says Arnold Mathijssen, a ...

Bacteria come in a wide variety of shapes, which are important for their fitness in their respective ecological niches. However, despite intensive research, the factors that determine the shape of ...

Bacteria come in all shapes and sizes -- some are straight as a rod, others twist like a corkscrew. Shape plays an important role in how bacteria infiltrate and attack cells in the body. The helical ...

A sweeping new study has uncovered global patterns in how bacteria thrive and interact within lakes and reservoirs, offering new insights into the invisible forces that sustain freshwater ecosystems.

Most conversations about breast milk tend to focus on topics like nutrients, antibodies and bonding time rather than bacteria ...

For generations, humans have linked sensations in our gut to our instinct and mood. Now a growing body of science is looking at whether the trillions of microbes, such as bacteria, that live in the ...

Breast milk contains living bacteria that transfer to babies' guts, helping build healthy digestion and immune systems.