A colony of leafcutter ants is home to more than just one species. Each year, studies reveal new layers of complexity in ...

A dangerous bacterial outbreak has hospitalised six people in one state, sparking an urgent health investigation.

Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of ...

Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of individual human cells infected with bacteria that model tuberculosis – and ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have identified the mechanism by which pathogenic Bordetella bacteria promote the colonization of mammalian airways.

Infectious keratitis remains a leading cause of corneal blindness and visual impairment worldwide, with bacterial, fungal, amoebic and viral pathogens presenting major diagnostic and therapeutic ...

Researchers have revealed how bacteria precisely control the genes that trigger cell division. The study shows that the MraZ protein, which normally forms a donut-shaped structure, must bend and ...

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm.

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus radiodurans, survived brief pressure spikes that could occur when rock gets ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and bind to receptors on the surface of target cells, a molecular arms race that ...