An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, Johns Hopkins ...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) ...

Research on the gut microbiome has focused mainly on bacteria, but bacteriophages and fungi play critical roles as well, with significant influences on health and disease.

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) ...

Researchers led by the University of Waterloo have discovered how to turn common bacteria into high-efficiency factories ...

Ryan Hunter, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, recently created a device to study anaerobic bacteria alongside oxygenated cells, simulating microenvironments within the body.

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Researchers discovered that saccharin kills drug-resistant bacteria, disrupts their DNA, and helps antibiotics work better.

In the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Izgu and his team reported how they implemented RNA within bacterial ... as the model organism.” The work is novel because although an ...

Gut microbiota composition and sex hormones influence the immune response to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus gastrointestinal colonization in mice.