A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

Inspired by sea sponges, researchers created living micro-lenses from bacteria that may improve medical and industrial ...

The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually ...

Bacteria are often cast as the microbial villains of our food system, blamed for spoilage and sickness. But behind the scenes ...

To verify a defence system, scientists can select a candidate, insert the genes into a standard strain of laboratory bacteria and test whether they allow the microbes to resist phages that they ...

A study published in Nature Chemistry by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University shows how common ...

The United States can no longer keep tabs on drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other infections, scientists said.

Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, these signals can only be detected by looking at the cells under a microscope ...

Applications range from precision medicine and resilient agriculture to biosensors for national security and biobased ...