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 ...

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...

Many everyday chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria and potentially fuel antibiotic resistance, prompting calls to ...

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...

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