Soil bacteria help plants grow roots by suppressing immune responses. Scientists reveal the role of enzymes in balancing ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Parasite, zombie, leech—these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms ...

A new study has uncovered how the defense mechanisms of bacteria can be neutralized, facilitating more efficient genetic ...

A new study by Tel Aviv University reveals how bacterial defense mechanisms can be neutralized, enabling the efficient ...

Prevents contamination of the patient and the environment (air, surfaces, equipment), protects the wearer from airborne infectious agents and protects against the risk of splashing biological fluids.

Scientists have been engineering “mirror life” by changing the chirality of life’s building blocks. Now, it's time to set ...

Genetic diversity is vital for species to adapt to environmental changes. In humans and many organisms, sexual reproduction drives this diversity. However, bacteria lack such a mechanism. Instead, ...

Scientists warn that the rapid rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria could trigger a dramatic spike in deaths, and we are not prepared.