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 ...

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

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

A new single cell-based screening tool evaluates how well antibiotics kill bacteria and may help researchers determine which ...

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

Respiratory infections are among the leading causes of illness and death in the elderly, driven by immune aging, chronic ...

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 ...

Earthworms remove 70-95 percent of antibiotic resistance genes from farm manure, making safer fertilizer for crops.