Researchers have identified an unusual arabinose-based modification of bacteriophage DNA that helps viruses evade bacterial ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that can kill bacteria through highly specific interactions. While this property can be beneficial in selected applications, bacteriophages represent a serious threat to ...

Antimicrobial resistance—when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs designed to kill them—is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

University of Toronto researchers have expanded our understanding of bacterial immunity with the discovery of a new protein ...

Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington have identified a chemical molecule that disables a bacterial immune system, ...

Researchers in the Raman Lab at UW recently published a study discussing sending microbes into space at the International ...

The human gut is home to diverse microbes and has one of the highest density of microbes on Earth. The trillions of microbes that live within us are incredibly important for human health. Yet, we know ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing challenges to global public health as harmful microbes evolve to evade these medications. Now, researchers at University of California San Diego and ...

Viruses have spent billions of years perfecting the art of invading cells, hijacking their machinery and spreading with ...

When we think of cholera, most of us picture contaminated water and tragic outbreaks in vulnerable regions. But behind the scenes, cholera bacteria are locked in a fierce, microscopic war-one that ...