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 ...

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

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

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

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

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.