The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...

A 2022 study out of Griffith University in Australia found that nose picking can usher Chlamydia pneumoniae, bacteria that ...

Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...

Scientists reveal how bacteria switch direction through a microscopic tug-of-war inside their motors, driven by energy and ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...