A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

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 ...

Plants are quietly borrowing tricks from bacteria, repurposing foreign genes to build complex molecules that look a lot like ...

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

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

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...

An international team of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new ...

A protein determines the shape of bacteria. Bacteria come in a wide variety of shapes, which are important for their fitness in their respective ecological niches. However, despite intensive research, ...

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 ...