Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the accuracy and speed at which often deadly pathogen infections can be ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is one of the most common vaginal infections, yet many women have never even heard of it. It affects about one-in-three women globally, making it more common ...

Known as phage therapy, it uses viruses to kill harmful bacteria in difficult-to-treat infections. Read more at ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

Scientists have decoded the metabolic strategies of certain sulfur bacteria. A new study reports that the bacteria are found worldwide and have a complex metabolism with modular features.

Bacteria have mostly been portrayed as villains that make us sick, but the Human Microbiome Project showed that we share our ...

A Florida man in his 70s developed a rare Brucella suis bacterial infection from handling and eating feral pig meat, which ...

The microscopic shards of plastic found in every corner of the planet may be exacerbating antibiotic resistance, a new study has found.