In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

Hospitals and public spaces are locked in a quiet arms race with microbes that cling to surfaces, shrug off disinfectants, and evolve around our best drugs. Now researchers are turning to a Nobel ...

A bizarre bacteria has been discovered with an ability previously thought impossible for its kind. This strange discovery could shine a light on how some of our earliest single-celled ancestors formed ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.

Article reviewed by Phoebe Lostroh, PhD from Colorado College. Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Louis Pasteur prepared the first liquid bacterial culture medium in 1860, ...

Marine bacteria are key to determining whether carbon is recycled near the ocean surface or transported to deeper waters, but ...

Some viruses, known as bacteriophages, only infect bacterial cells, often destroying those bacteria in the process. Bacteria, in turn, can develop defenses against these viruses. Bacteriophages or ...

A new theory of Alzheimer's disease reassesses the role of beta-amyloid in the brain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The pursuit ...