In natural environments, bacteria rarely live as free-swimming cells but are attached to surfaces as biofilms in medical ...

The discovery that a toxin made by bacteria found in dirty water might help trigger ulcerative colitis could lead to new ...

Marine viruses deploy a sophisticated Trojan horse maneuver that enables them to dismantle the energy systems of ocean ...

Researchers report that they’ve developed a sensor made of tiny microspheres packed with blood-sensing bacteria that detect ...

Evo’s success wasn’t limited to proteins. When they tested a different toxin that had an RNA-based inhibitor, the system ...

Researchers in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School have just opened a new window into understanding the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

A new study by Professor Ludmilla Aristilde and her team shows how soil microbes steer carbon flow to adapt and create ...

Cells have an internal skeleton that maintains their structure and also drives their movement. Known as the cytoskeleton, ...

During Earth’s early days, bacteria developed a self-destruct strategy for detecting and destroying phages before they’re able to take over the cell’s machinery. While this does wonders for our immune ...

Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

Bacteria that produce many antibiotics use a surprising self-poisoning system to coordinate development. Sensing a key signal ...

A leading education union boss says headteachers will be unable to fulfil the government's latest plan to teach the sciences separately at GCSE because of an overwhelming lack of specialist teachers.