Genomic Enumeration of Antibiotic Resistance in Space (GEARS) will focus on two types of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, ...
Scientists have scoured the depths of the ocean and outer space for microbes to help slow global warming. They're now looking ...
A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders was caused by a common type of E. coli bacteria that can cause ...
Like hibernating bears, certain bacterial cells have the ability to shift into a "low-power" metabolic state in which they ...
Researchers describe the full molecular structure of the phage DEV. DEV infects and lyses Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, an opportunistic pathogen in cystic fibrosis and other diseases. DEV is part ...
The bacteria can infect a person with an open wound, such as a cut, and can cause the skin and soft tissue around the wound to quickly break down.
New research reveals how our immune system uses Guanylate Binding Proteins to combat bacterial infections by forming a ...
Claims about food and immunity are everywhere. Now scientists are exploring exactly how nutrition acts on the immune system ...
Like so many organisms on the planet, when cells experience mosh-pit-level crowding, they may just become stressed. Yet unlike most other life forms, cells subject to physical stress from crowding by ...
The warm, damp environments of your showerhead and toothbrush are the perfect breeding ground for microbes, and a new study ...
Abstract: Electroactive bacteria possess unique biological machinery for transporting electrons across biological membranes and over micron distances in a process termed extracellular electron ...
Scientists discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a finding that researchers hope could be a promising answer to combat one of ...