Our bodies are a constant battlefield between pathogens and our immune system. But beyond this battle, there’s a larger war being fought between humans and drug-resistant bacteria. When antibiotics ...

Bacteria get up to all sorts of strange things. As a result, they’ve evolved to produce an extensive range of small molecules with myriad functions. For the bacterium, those chemical compounds help it ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Using a clustering algorithm and machine learning, a team of researchers analyzed 15,000 images of nearly 125 Clostridium thermocellum bacteria. The result is data-rich pictures showing the location ...

There's a lot of buzz about the gut microbiome—the trillions of microbes that help us digest food and support the immune ...

The way antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of bacteria has been revealed in stunning detail by high-resolution microscopy, which could help us develop new treatments for drug-resistant ...

Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that constantly “sense” their surroundings to survive and thrive. New research shows that beneficial gut microbes, especially common Clostridia bacteria, can ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across generations and adapt their behavior to changing environments all without a ...