Scientists discovered hidden lineages inside common gut bacteria that are linked to cancer, diabetes, inflammation, and aging ...

A newly developed therapy inspired by bacteria residing within tumors offers a different way to combat cancer by targeting ...

In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

Bacteria and other microorganisms, for example, have developed particularly elegant strategies. "By releasing and sensing chemical signals, they leave behind traces that allow them to 'record' where ...

Antibiotics are a double-edged sword—they should be as toxic as possible to pathogenic bacteria while being harmless to the cells of the human body. An international research team led by the Helmholtz ...

Mike Manson has spent 50 years at Texas A&M studying the bacterial flagellar motor - a molecular machine that spins hundreds of times per second, outpacing a race car's spinning crankshaft, to drive ...