New research from Indiana University has uncovered a previously unknown vulnerability in how bacteria build the whip-like ...

The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bacteria can survive antibiotics in several ways, including by pumping the drugs out of their cells before they can take ...

University of Missouri researchers have discovered a new way to harness one of the body's natural defenses: copper. While ...

It is a fact that reliably startles anyone who hears it for the first time: the human body is home to at least as many ...

New research has shown how collaboration can even be beneficial in the microbial world. A study reported in Science has outlined how bacterial cells can work in unison to survive antibiotic exposure.

MIT researchers have created bacterial “transistors” that can be wired together into living circuits capable of performing ...

Researchers have discovered that bacteria can sense threats in advance through a general danger signal. Bacteria detect when nearby cells are dying and proactively form a protective biofilm.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Bacterial cells are fundamentally different ...