Clostridioides difficile infection causes severe diarrhea and results in the death of nearly 20,000 patients in Europe each year. It is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections. When it ...

A team led by Professor Guosheng Tang from Guangzhou Medical University, Associate Professor Yutao Liu from Tianjin ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens. The ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

Protein cages found in nature within microbes help weather its contents from the harsh intracellular environment -- an observation with many bioengineering applications. Researchers recently developed ...