Physicians have relied on a class of antibiotics called polymyxins to fight potentially life-threatening Gram-negative ...

The new study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, revealed in high-resolution images and biochemical experiments ...

Researchers have revealed how polymyxins, crucial last-resort antibiotics, break down bacterial armor by forcing cells to ...

The way antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of bacteria has been revealed in stunning detail by high-resolution ...

A team led by UCL (University College London) and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how ...

NYU scientists are developing a zinc-based treatment for tooth decay that combats bacteria, blocks pain, and avoids staining ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

Short peptides can self-assemble into net-like structures that kill bacteria. Now, researchers have discovered how to control ...

Sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults fell last year, but syphilis in newborns continued to rise, according to ...

Calcium, a mineral involved in wound healing, can strengthen the attachment between microbe and skin and make infections hard to shake.

In 1970, Richard Blakemore noticed bacteria he had taken from Woods Hole in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, behaving strangely. The bacteria followed the pull of a magnet. They were the first of their kind ...

Fearless bacteria have colonized extreme environments, adapted to vast temperatures and pH fluctuations, and acclimated to ...