Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have identified three subtypes of senescent skin cells with distinct shapes, ...

An experimental vaccine for acne could someday transform the way patients with the condition are treated, according to the ...

Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis—a cable bacteria discovered along the coast of Oregon—has the remarkable ability to conduct electricity. According to researchers, this bacteria “stands out from all other ...

Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin produced by a common gut microbe.

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a live-imaging system, Phollow, that tracks individual ...

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's along with an international team of researchers have discovered a surprising new ...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

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 ...

Recent discoveries are helping scientists face this challenge in innovative ways. Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications ...

A new study suggests that sauerkraut may protect the intestinal wall from inflammation. In the lab, sauerkraut was more ...

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 ...

Both fungal and bacterial methods worked. In fact, the bacterially mineralized scaffolds reached full mineralization in just ...