Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

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

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

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have revealed that bacteriophages use a small RNA molecule to hijack bacterial cells, a mechanism that had never been described before. A tiny viral ...

Investigating the pathogenic mechanisms of bacteria has consistently remained a central concern in the realm of infectious diseases in livestock and ...

In lab experiments, bacteria transferred plasmids with AMR genes in the presence of zinc at reduced or nonexistent rates. Stopping the transfer without killing microbes may help reduce AMR without ...