In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Scientists are now looking to bacteriophage — viruses that infect bacteria — and their potential to treat drug-resistant ...

When exposed to antibiotics, approximately one out of every 10 8 -10 9 bacteria develops resistance due to spontaneous ...

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

Artificial bacterial transformation is a laboratory technique scientists use to introduce foreign DNA into bacterial cells. There are two main methods by which this is achieved: Gram positive and Gram ...

Dead bacteria release an enzyme that breaks down their contents into nutrients for other bacteria, highlighting a novel ...

Researchers discovered lariocidin, a lasso peptide antibiotic that kills multidrug-resistant bacteria by binding a novel ...

Scientists in South Korea have engineered tiny bacterial cells that are churning out plastic. The plastics produced by the ...

The effect of saccharin on the microbiome has received much attention, but its impact on pathogenic bacterial species is less ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from ...