The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

The two biology professors are the second and third faculty members known to face FBI searches in 2025. Last March, the FBI ...

Ancient DNA from a Colombian hunter-gatherer reveals a 5,500-year-old infection, rewriting what we know about syphilis and ...

Space-based experiments show that microgravity-induced mutations in bacteriophages may improve their ability to target ...

Biofilm research sits at the intersection of microbiology, infectious diseases, and biotechnology, addressing the complex multicellular communities that ...

People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...

Fear of bacterial meningitis in febrile infants may lead to more diagnostic lumbar punctures than necessary. Using the PECARN rule to assess invasive bacterial infection delivered a sensitivity of ...

Scientists have used genetically engineered bacteria to simultaneously create and color fabrics in a one-pot method. Compared with current methods that rely on fossil fuels, the new technique offers a ...