In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

New drugs that target 'zombie' tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

Scientists have discovered that the bacteria behind Lyme disease and anaplasmosis have a sneaky way of surviving inside ticks ...

You can use alcohol hand gels (they’re better than nothing), but they don’t kill all germs.Also, food tends to attract an ...

New study shows AI can predict if Listeria bacteria will survive common food industry disinfectants, helping improve food safety and cleaning protocols.

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

A herbal mouthwash selectively killed off bad bacteria in the mouth while preserving the good strains, according to a new ...

An immunocompromised woman’s cat stirred up a lot more trouble than usual (for a cat). In a recent case report, doctors ...

Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack ...