Householders are being warned about items we commonly use in our kitchen that are covered in bacteria - and could make us ill ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

There's an arms race in medicine -- scientists design drugs to treat lethal bacterial infections, but bacteria can evolve defenses to those drugs, sending the researchers back to square one.

Bakaletz is among a growing list of scientists looking to treat some of the world's deadliest infections by manipulating the biofilms that enable them. Bacteria are often thought of as free ...