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, ...

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

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, ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Scratching an itchy rash worsens inflammation by triggering pain-sensing neurons and activating mast cells, creating a ...