Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a microscopic testing approach that measures whether antibiotics truly ...

The viruses devise ploys to break into bacterial defenses. Bacteria, on the other hand, strengthen their defenses so that ...

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

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

The protein called intelectin-2 plays another important role by reinforcing the protective mucus layer that lines the ...

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

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

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

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

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

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...