Two new studies uncover unexpected ways that microbes move, offering insights that could impact our understanding of human health and disease. New research from Arizona State University has uncovered ...

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A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same patient, ...

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A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

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

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 ...