Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

Engineered frog-derived peptides may become powerful new antibiotics, showing strong results against resistant bacteria in ...

A natural antibacterial molecule shows clinical promise. Its unusual binding site is on an excellent target: ...

Scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders -- by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and using it to 'vaccinate' ...

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

They say the height of women’s heels can be used as a recession indicator. As the economy fails, heels get higher. But what about the whereabouts of their waistlines? If low waistlines are a ...

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

Every day, you handle a ton of objects without even thinking about it: phone in hand, keyboard under your fingers, water bottle in your mouth… Have you ever thought about the amount of bacteria hiding ...

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

Rather, they found, it repels those cells that do not produce EPS. They found that bacteria that are diligently making EPS naturally attract each other—and exclude the lazy ones that don't pay ...

A common vaginal condition known as bacterial vaginosis (BV) may actually be a sexually transmitted infection (STI), according to researchers. The NHS currently says BV is caused by "a change in ...