As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

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 ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

Researchers say discoveries could expand the CRISPR toolbox and lead to more efficient, rapid diagnostic tools for detecting COVID-19, influenza, and RSV.

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics.

A study suggests that diets high in certain proteins may reduce cholera infection by stopping the bacteria from spreading in ...

For all of the political chaos that American science endured in 2025, aspects of this country’s research enterprise made it ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most ...

The CRISPR “gene scissors” have become an important basis for genome-editing technologies in many fields, ranging from biology and medicine to agriculture and industry. A team from the Helmholtz ...

Researchers at Utah State University revealed new details about CRISPR immune system defenses, such as Cas12a3 systems, that ...

Different dairy foods appear to influence the gut’s bacteria and wall-attached microbial community in distinct ways.