Bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are a growing health problem. These dangerous pathogens are already thought to contribute to the deaths of over 4 million people every year, worldwide. The ...

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Millions of people die every year from antibiotic-resistant infections or from the complications of those infections, and the problem is only expected to get worse as pathogenic bacteria continue to ...

Using ribosome engineering (RE), researchers from Shinshu University introduced mutations affecting the protein synthesis ...

New research shows that 'hacking' the communication channels between microbes in the mouth could boost levels of beneficial ...

Inflammatory gut bacteria that carry proteins structurally similar to myelin may trigger the development and progression of ...

A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, ...