Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

Drug-resistant infections - especially from deadly bacteria like tuberculosis and staph - are a growing global health crisis.

Peter H. Gilligan, Ph.D., D(ABMM) emeritus and F(AAM) was a medical microbiologist at UNC Health for 35 years. Here, he ...

About one out of every ten people who gets sick with Legionnaires' disease will die due to complications from their illness. Seven in eight survivors of Legionnaires’ disease will suffer long-term ...

Gold prices jumped to a new all-time high at the opening of the markets ... At 9am, the 24K variant of the yellow metal opened at Dh367.5 per gram, up Dh2.25 from Dh365.25 per gram at the close ...

Getz notes that integrons are found in virtually all Vibrio species and roughly 10% of all bacterial genomes, so their widespread prevalence makes them a promising target for developing strategies ...

Scientists have discovered a protein that enables bacteria to shut down into dormant spores under extreme conditions. The process, which enables the bacteria to become practically indestructible ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be ... solution killed the pest very quickly -- all of the pests were killed within an hour ...

THE usual method for staining bacterial and yeast spores requires three operations: the staining of both spores and vegetative cells by applying heat to the slide bearing the dye; the removal of ...

All are broad-spectrum antibiotics used to treat many different types of bacterial illness. When the E. coli biofilms were on microplastics, they grew dramatically faster, larger and more ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Clostridium scindens acts as a promising ...