individual bacteria within that population can act in radically different ways. This phenomenon is crucial in the bacteria's struggle for survival. The more diversity a population of bacteria has ...

If nonantibiotic drugs target bacteria in different ways from standard antibiotics, they could serve as leads in developing new antibiotics. But if nonantibiotics kill bacteria in similar ways to ...

Now, researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that bacteria do more than just work together. Bacterial cells from different species can combine ... explain why some bacteria are ...

June 26 (UPI) --Researchers have developed a way to culture the elusive bacteria that causes syphilis. Despite a century of work, scientists haven't been able grow the spiral-shaped bacterium ...

A new model describing how bacteria spread when moving in two different ways has been published today in the open-access journal eLife. The results provide another step towards identifying general ...