The unusual molecular makeup of Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease, may hold clues for understanding and treating the tick-borne disease.

The common hospital-acquired, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection is known to cause infections in the blood, lungs and urinary tract after surgery. While symptoms can vary depending on the site ...

Breakthrough Discovery Explained In theory, the difference between a man-made machine and biology is pretty clear. Our inventions mostly run on electricity, while life, from bacteria to humans, runs ...

An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm ...

Mary Gilmore, Staff Writer Years ago, scientists discovered a brand-new species of bacteria that appeared to breathe by ...

When Reece Bradberry first set foot on the campus of Presbyterian College, she never imagined she would one day be conducting microbiology research that could have implications for medicine and ...

Five gene clusters have been integrated into the bacterium Vibrio natriegens to engineer a strain that can remediate five ...

Several human pathogens exploit the kinetic forces generated by polymerizing actin to power their intracellular motility. Human cell-autonomous immune responses activate ...

A team has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural process that pushes electrons into their surroundings instead of breathing on oxygen. The findings could ...

A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating ...

A research team has uncovered a previously unknown type of immune signaling molecule—a novel compound combining histidine and ...