The trillions of microbial cells in our gastrointestinal tract have their own genomes and metabolic products, many of which ...

Microorganisms produce a wide variety of natural products that can be used as active ingredients to treat diseases such as ...

The designers of phage therapies hope to avert the problem in treatment with antibiotics, where a certain drug kills bacteria ...

Antimicrobial peptides have not typically lived up to their promise, especially when it comes to beating antibiotic ...

"Our approach mimics the natural bacterial gene transfer process to directly liberate and amplify entire biosynthetic gene clusters within the native bacterial cell, granting access ... "So far, large ...

A new study reveals how a single species of bacteria can sustain a diverse community of phage species, with implications for ...

A toxin in the bacteria that's one of the most common causes of foodborne illness accelerates the spread of colorectal tumors ...

Fish, of course, are not humans, but they allow a fair comparison, Salinas said. And her work suggests that if fish have ...

A groundbreaking antipsychotic, a powerful new antibiotic, and a vaccine-like prophylactic for HIV are some of the most ...

If mirror bacteria were to escape from the lab ... As soon as scientists are able to construct a cell out of naturally handed ...

Hydrogen peroxide is an antiseptic with some major cleaning power, so it's only fitting that it comes in handy when cleaning ...

It’s a combination of biofilm, which is a slimy layer of bacteria, mold, and fungi; and mineral deposits, which usually come ...