"The successful operation of ELVIS in the demanding conditions of space not only paves the way for its use in off-Earth ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage -- phage for short -- that has allowed them to see for the first time the structural makeup of the part of the phage that ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

A team of researchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in the U.K., has re-examined an old ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...