Microbes that reside peaceably in the nasal passageways and on the skin can be harnessed for taking drugs to target cells.

How do bacteria—harmless ones living in our bodies, or those that cause disease—organize their activities? A new study, ...

How do bacteria - harmless ones living in our bodies, or those that cause disease - organize their activities? A new study, combining powerful genomic-scale microscopy with a technical innovation, ...

Jumbo phages use a protein shield to protect their DNA from bacterial attacks. A special handshake controls which molecules ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the ...

Mental health disorders are on the rise globally, with anxiety affecting millions. While there's no shortage of prescription ...

Real-time imaging shows that bacterial resilience to antibiotics is not caused by a few ‘persisters’, but is a ...

Harvard researchers have found that M. morganii may contribute to depression by producing an inflammatory molecule.

The need for new fast classification methods has become increasingly important. When a patient arrives at a medical center ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study published in the journal Nature ...

Weighing in at nearly 2 kilos, our gut bacteria seem to play an even bigger role than was previously thought. These bacteria ...