Bacteria and the viruses that infect them—known as phages—coexist in soils, oceans and living organisms. Scientists have long ...

Bacterial cells are far simpler than animal cells - bacterial cells don't even have membrane-bound organelles like mitochondria or a nucleus. But a new study has suggested that bacterial cells are ...

Are you experiencing bloating and constipation after antibiotics? You could be noticing changes in your gut microbiome.

Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the host and its resident. It may seem unusual, but complex cells are thought ...

A bacterial molecule called gladiolin can push Candida albicans away from its invasive, tissue-damaging form and back toward ...

A new analysis shows that infectious bacteria exposed to the antibiotic albicidin rapidly develop up to a 1,000-fold increase in resistance via a gene amplification mechanism. Mareike Saathoff of ...

Two new cryo-electron tomography studies from EMBL Heidelberg reveal how protein production, transport, and folding are ...

A 2026 review synthesizes evidence linking biliary bacterial infection, NET formation, MMP activation, bile-acid toxicity and ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

Leiden Ph.D. candidate Jo-Anne Verschoor discovered that nearly 20% of the bacterial strains she studied could degrade plastic, though they needed some encouragement to do so. "Bacteria are just like ...

The Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy hosted a “science cafe” Oct. 13 to ...