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

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

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

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

The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

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 ...

Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...

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

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

Bacteria can actively swim upstream, leading to severe infections in places like the urinary tract and respiratory system and ...

University of Wisconsin-Madison team found that microgravity alters the "evolutionary arms race" between bacteria and the ...