Researchers discovered that saccharin kills drug-resistant bacteria, disrupts their DNA, and helps antibiotics work better.

In a nutshell Scientists have solved the 3D structure of EspC, a powerful toxin produced by EPEC, a diarrheal E. coli strain ...

This new piece of the body’s immune defense could open new pathways to improved antibiotics and other medicinal therapies.

S trep infections are most well known for causing strep throat, which can be treated with antibiotics. But this type of ...

When exposed to antibiotics, approximately one out of every 10 8 -10 9 bacteria develops resistance due to spontaneous ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

It's never a good thing, when a bacterial biofilm forms on the surface of a medical implant. There could soon be a new way of ...

Scientists at La Trobe University have discovered how a diarrhoea-causing strain of bacteria uses “molecular scissors” to cut ...

Scientists at La Trobe University have discovered how a diarrhoea-causing strain of bacteria uses “molecular scissors” to cut ...

The proteasome is a microscopic barrel-shaped machine found in every cell of the human body. For decades, scientists only ...

Bacteria are the most diverse organisms on ... If life existed before this cataclysm, it was probably destroyed. After that, the current ancestors of all living beings appeared: single-celled ...