A new study shows how a type of disease-causing E. coli can quickly adapt when it loses one of its main ways of attaching to ...

The community of bacteria living deep within the lungs, long regarded as sparse and relatively inconsequential compared with the dense microbial ecosystems of the gut, is emerging as a decisive factor ...

During infection, bacteria encounter rapidly changing and stressful environments inside the body. To understand how they ...

Peking University, May 8, 2025: A research team led by Huang Jianyong from Peking University’s College of Engineering has uncovered a novel mechanism by which tissue geometry regulates bacterial ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, show that the emergence of ...

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

A mechanism of antiviral immunity in bacteria has been characterized. A research team from Umeå University (Sweden) has uncovered a mechanism for how bacteria build up antiviral immunity against ...

CRISPR is often described as an immune system that bacteria independently developed to fight viruses. However, the origin of ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have identified how certain dangerous bacteria spread. They studied chain-like ...

Microorganisms produce a wide variety of natural products that can be used as active ingredients to treat diseases such as infections or cancer. The blueprints for these molecules can be found in the ...