Why would electric bacteria exist in the first place? The vast majority of organisms use oxygen to metabolize energy because oxygen accepts electrons well. In low-oxygen environments, this isn't ...

Hundreds of different species of microbes live in your gut. In the future, one of these might serve a new function: microscopic in-house pharmacist.

A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: ...

If people had been aware of the existence of bacteria and their role in causing the Black Death in the 14th century, as well ...

The question of what and why has since set him on a scientific mission to understand how the population of bacteria ... biotech companies such as S-Biomedic to investigate the species as a therapeutic ...

Naturally occurring viruses that only attack bacteria, they were discovered at the turn of the century but generally lost in the noise of antibiotic development. Because antibiotics could be ...

The data suggests that the body's use of nutrient scarcity as a defense mechanism may actually enable bacteria's survival in the long run.

By analyzing E. coli protein levels, scientists found a surplus of membrane shuttle proteins that may play a role in antibiotic resistance.