While largely unnoticed, phages do not harm humans. On the contrary, these viruses are gaining increasing popularity as biomedicines to eradicate pathogenic bacteria, especially those associated with ...

Millions of tons of plastic waste accumulate in landfills and oceans every year. One promising response is to engineer ...

The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...

Bacterial cells are far simpler than animal cells - bacterial cells don't even have membrane-bound organelles like mitochondria or a nucleus. But a new study has suggested that bacterial cells are ...

The trillions of microbial cells in our gastrointestinal tract have their own genomes and metabolic products, many of which can affect human biology, and some of them can be beneficial, while others ...

Legumes like soybeans, alfalfa, peas, beans, peanuts and many more have a remarkable ability: They can partner with soil ...

A new analysis shows that infectious bacteria exposed to the antibiotic albicidin rapidly develop up to a 1,000-fold increase in resistance via a gene amplification mechanism. Mareike Saathoff of ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

Hypersaline environments, such as solar salterns, soda lakes, deep-sea brines, salt mines, salted foods, and dry soils, are among the most challenging ...

Two Alfred University students studying with Assistant Professor of Biology Cat Clarke presented research conducted under Clarke’s guidance at the recent American Society of Plant Biologists ...

Researchers describe the full molecular structure of the phage DEV. DEV infects and lyses Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, an opportunistic pathogen in cystic fibrosis and other diseases. DEV is part ...