Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

Chemotherapy’s gut damage turns out to have a surprising upside. By changing nutrient availability in the intestine, it ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...

In a first-of-its-kind lab study, scientists prove that probiotic bacteria stimulate immediate and measurable changes in brain cell function, hinting at a new direct communication between your gut and ...

UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubled the ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory conditions. A critical factor, however, is whether the active substances actually ...