New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of ...

Antibiotic treatments are losing effectiveness against a range of common bacterial pathogens, including E. coli, K. pneumoniae, Salmonella and Acinetobacter, according to a warning issued by the World ...

Groundbreaking study led by Weizmann Institute of Science and Hadassah AIDS Center scientists paves the way for new medical ...

Tuberculosis bacteria survive by hiding in our immune cells. In her PhD research, biologist Salomé Muñoz Sánchez explores how ...

Protein folding helpers such as TRiC and prefoldin (PFD) are crucial for the correct folding of many essential proteins. In a Nature study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry ...

A plant-based diet combined with probiotics reduces PSA increase in men and lowers prostate cancer risk by 3x.

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the groundbreaking work of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the Dutch scientist ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.

When UNSW Associate Professor Shafagh Waters explains cystic fibrosis (CF) to the children she works with, she asks them to imagine what is happening inside their own bodies. "I tell them to picture ...

With an exciting breakthrough and an ERC Proof of Concept grant in the pocket, Full Professor Ilja Voets reports promising ...