In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless "microgravity" conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at the University of Basel created a new test that tracks individual bacteria ...

Metabolites in mouse and human breath correlate to gut-microbe populations and might be helpful in diagnosing disease.

The protein called intelectin-2 plays another important role by reinforcing the protective mucus layer that lines the ...

They discovered that the bacteria inside tumors can affect the response to immunotherapy. If a tumor has a high level of bacteria, it attracts immune cells called myeloid cells. But these myeloid ...