The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious ...

The discovery could pave the way to starving antibioitc-resistant bacteria without new drugs or harmful chemicals.

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 ...

A bacterial cell (left) is simultaneously attacked on two fronts: by antibiotics and by a positively charged, bactericidal peptide-based material that disrupts the structure of the bacteria’s ...

Experts have discovered that salmonella has been depleting a key protein which the body's own immune cells need to function.

What do sudden anxiety attacks, unexplained weight loss, and crippling fatigue all have in common? They can all be caused by ...

Recent estimates indicate that deadly antibiotic-resistant infections will rapidly escalate over the next quarter century.

Researchers have uncovered an unexpected vulnerability that could change how we fight deadly infections without using more drugs.

Marine biologists found the new bacteria in the tissue of two soft coral species that live in complete darkness in the Gulf ...

Scientists are looking at whether salmonella could be used to slow tumour cell growth in bowel cancer in a new generation of ...

Microfluidic chips that mimic the complex human cervical environment provide a platform to study the reproductive tract and ...

Researchers using machine learning discovered that variations in microbial load in the gut, influenced by age, sex, diet, and ...