Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

An international team has identified a potential microbial culprit behind the alarming rise in early-onset colorectal cancer: a bacterial toxin called colibactin. Scientists report that exposure to ...

It's never a good thing when harmful bacteria are present on surfaces in hospitals, as they can cause life-threatening ...

Game-changing substance could transform infection control for hospitals and health clinics In a nutshell Researchers have ...

Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team has discovered that tiny organisms in Brooklyn's highly contaminated Gowanus Canal have developed a comprehensive collection of pollution-fighting ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive—and thrive—in human and ...

Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, ...

a multicentre retrospective analysis of efficacy and safety in real-world clinical practice Time/Location: April 13, noon CEST (7:00 a.m. U.S. EST) in poster area in Hall D ...

A modernized tetracycline, NUZYRA is specifically designed to overcome tetracycline resistance and exhibits activity across a spectrum of bacteria, including Gram-positive, Gram-negative, atypicals ...

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 ...

This is what a recent study published in Frontiers in Space Technologies hopes to address as a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science investigated how bacteria could be used to ...

“When we figured out how this new molecule kills other bacteria, it was a breakthrough moment,” said Manoj Jangra, a postdoctoral fellow in Wright’s lab. Wright and team are optimistic about ...