Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered that bacteria can drive stem cell regeneration to repair the ...

Calcium, a mineral involved in wound healing, can strengthen the attachment between microbe and skin and make infections hard to shake.

Experiments show that the bacterial component of fine particulate matter has a highly potent inflammatory effect.

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to ...

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life.

How can trillions of microbes live in our gut without causing a massive immune reaction? Scientists have been researching this question for years, and we are learning more about how the gut microbiome ...

A mysterious marine epidemic has erased billions of sea stars from North America’s Pacific coast. After more than a decade of unanswered questions, scientists have traced the disaster to a single ...

An antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning could come from bacteria. Mice treated with a tweaked version of a bacterial protein rapidly cleared carbon monoxide from their blood, safely eliminating it ...