Scientists at Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University and Houston's Baylor College of Medicine say patients with more bacteria ...

Probiotic species used in humans for many years are also candidates, including Escherichia coli Nissle, Lactobacillus and ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have uncovered unexpected traces of bacteria within brain ...

Research led by the University of Auckland has cast light on the evolutionary origins of one of nature's first motors, which ...

It was long thought that when the membrane of a cell lost its integrity and broke down, the cell would die; cells cannot survive without a cell wall. Many antibiotics target the cell wall of bacteria, ...

Bacteria live in nearly every habitat on earth including within soil, water, acidic hot springs and even within our own guts. Many are involved in fundamental processes like fermentation, ...

A transporter which some bacteria use to recycle fragments of their cell wall has been discovered. Researchers found that the transporter controls resistance to certain kinds of cell-wall targeting ...

Bacteria are a cornerstone of the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, helping produce everything from drugs and beer to biodiesel and fertilizer. The pharmaceutical industry, in particular, relies ...

Imagine visiting a mangrove in the Caribbean and discovering a human as tall as Mt. Everest. Something like that happened to marine biologist Jean-Marie Volland — except instead of a human, he ...