When hit with low-frequency ultrasound, the nanoparticles release antibiotics deep inside bacterial communities ...

Bacteriophage T7, a virus that preys on E. coli, becomes a more effective killer after spending time aboard the International ...

A growing body of experimental work on how single bacteria sense and respond to their environment has reopened a long-standing question in biology and philosophy: can an individual cell be conscious?

After her initial test run, she cultured a regular sample, as well as the shocked sample so she could compare them side by ...

An international research team led by Konrad Meister from Boise State University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research has identified a new class ...

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm.

It is possible that extremophile microbes lcould exist on icy moons and planets with conditions similar to subglacial waters ...

Antibiotic resistance is widely linked to antibiotic misuse, yet growing evidence suggests that everyday environmental ...

Bacteria and phages that travel in space behave much differently in microgravity than they do in labs on Earth, exciting ...

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers have developed an early-stage, experimental "living eye drop" that uses naturally occurring eye bacteria to support corneal wound healing. The ...