In a growing global trend, bacteria are evolving new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections.

An electron microscopy images of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria that featured on the covers of the 2022 edition of The ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, “phages.” Scientists have sought to learn how the ...

Scientists are now looking to bacteriophage — viruses that infect bacteria — and their potential to treat drug-resistant ...

Under ideal conditions, bacterial cell proliferation is exponential ... Cells at the edge of the colony (light green in the images) rapidly grew, encroaching on their neighbors’ space. Consequently, ...

Scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders -- by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and using it to 'vaccinate' ...