New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Bacteria can live in a lot of unusual places, even in tumors that are growing in the human body. Scientists have now taken advantage of these tumor-dwelling bacteria to turn them into cancer fighters ...

Effective ways to combat harmful viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasitic worms have driven major advances in medicine and contributed to a significant increase in human life expectancy over the past ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

A new protein can defeat the deadly flesh-eating bacteria, as claimed by a recent study conducted by the Australian National University. A bubonic plague smear, prepared from a lymph removed from an ...

“We have noticed a major dynamic here: thanks to technological advances in bacteriology, much more is being published about newly discovered species of bacteria,” explained Dr. Goldenberger. This ...

Israeli scientists have discovered that some bacteria can survive antibiotics in more than one way, helping explain why infections sometimes return after treatment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...