The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

Certain antibodies employ unusual tactics to keep germs from attaching to cells in our bodies. Their defensive strategies ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

Allergies and asthma affect an increasing number of children worldwide, but now an international research group led by DTU ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

"The air sacs in the lungs are a critical first barrier against infections in humans, but we've traditionally looked at them ...

A new single cell-based screening tool evaluates how well antibiotics kill bacteria and may help researchers determine which ...