Recent experiments have unveiled the remarkable resilience of an Earth bacterium that survived the extreme conditions of a ...

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria in 2023 proved resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to the World Health ...

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...

David Ramotowski receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIEHS P42ES013661) and previously from the University of Iowa Post-Comprehensive Fellowship. Unfortunately, banned isn’t the ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human ...

A collaboration between researchers in Santa Cruz and Puebla, Mexico, is working to eliminate the bacterial genes driving ...

People with certain bacteria and fungi in their mouths may face a dramatically higher risk of pancreatic cancer — more than three times greater — according to new research from NYU Langone Health and ...

The U.S. is witnessing a troubling rise in infections caused by bacteria carrying the NDM gene — dubbed “nightmare bacteria”— which one expert says poses a "grave danger" to public health. Infection ...

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This challenges the idea that sleep is solely brain-driven, instead suggesting it ...

Bacteria insert proteins into their outer membrane using a highly conserved apparatus known as the β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM). A large group of bacteria with particularly complex outer-membrane ...

Infection rates are soaring in the United States due to a menacing bacteria that are resistant "to some of the strongest antibiotics available," prompting infectious-disease experts to warn about the ...