New drugs that target ‘zombie’ tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of Surrey, published in Scientific Reports .

I never eat bagged salads, largely because one of my research areas is fresh salad safety. It has been found that bagged lettuce can contain food poisoning germs such as E coli, Salmonella and ...

Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet – in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

A new study found that daylight boosts your immune system by helping infection-fighting cells (neutrophils) work more ...

As antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" make infections trickier to treat, some in the medical community are turning to ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

University of Cambridge scientists discovered gut bacteria can absorb and remove up to 74% of toxic PFAS "forever chemicals" ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

A herbal mouthwash selectively killed off bad bacteria in the mouth while preserving the good strains, according to a new ...

An immunocompromised woman’s cat stirred up a lot more trouble than usual (for a cat). In a recent case report, doctors ...

Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack ...

Bacteria can be ruthless. A new study has shown that when their survival is threatened because of food scarcity, they will ...