On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your ...

Not all bacteria grow the same way, even when they are closely related. In Caulobacter crescentus (left panel), the cell elongates from its center ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

Fully cell-free process aims to democratize personalized cancer therapeutics with shorter turnaround and negligible bioburden ...

A new study projects that millions of stomach cancer cases globally could be fueled by the Helicobacter pylori bacteria.

In an ideal world, every piece of food we eat would be free of pathogens at all times. In the real world, though, where 600 ...

Exposure to a common fungal molecule can reprogram immune cells in the lungs, causing them to overreact to infection-like ...

Scientists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Biological Research say their vaccine uses lipid ...

Microbiomes in older mice pumped out damaging metabolites that drove endothelial cell senescence, offering potential targets ...