Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the ...

Real-time imaging shows that bacterial resilience to antibiotics is not caused by a few ‘persisters’, but is a ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Jumbo phages use a protein shield to protect their DNA from bacterial attacks. A special handshake controls which molecules enter.

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the World Health Organization ...

One of the most important medical advancements in the 20 th century was the discovery of antibiotics. The first antibiotic was introduced in 1910 and radically changed modern medicine, according to ...

Emerging drug-resistant strains are posing significant challenges to the global fight against tuberculosis (TB) and it is a critical task to detect treatment failure as early as possible.