Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

In most people, these bacteria coexist peacefully and contribute to a mutually beneficial relationship, with both human and ...

UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubled the ...

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

In space, bacteriophages mutate in ways not seen on Earth, making them more effective at killing drug-resistant bacteria.

Somehow, 26 new species of bacteria have managed to survive in the harshest place on Earth -- a NASA cleanroom.