"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

Researchers in Australia have pinpointed a protein found in oysters as a way to make antibiotics more effective. As ...

A new study shows a low-cost yet effective way to combat bacterial resistance using curcumin–the natural yellow plant ...

The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes, eventually killing them.

It’s a statistics-packed tour through the rigorous world of scientific studies about racism in the workplace and beyond. It also happens to be a timely antidote to a set of beliefs that are on ...

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

Initially, phages were seen as a way to treat bacterial infections, because they are harmless to humans and can kill specific bacteria while ... a handle on the basic science of how these phages ...

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Resistance can only be acquired when bacteria are treated with an antibiotic that fails to kill them, underscoring the need to identify the proper path of treatment. Making matters worse ...

Kostas Konstantinidis overturned a long-standing scientific assumption when he demonstrated that many microbes, like plants and animals, are organized into distinct species. For decades, scientists ...