Bacteria can defend themselves against antibiotics with the help of an enzyme released by dying cells, according to a study ...

Modern medicine has made significant advances in cancer treatments over the decades. But all cancer therapies still face one ...

A cell capable of exploding like a tiny biological grenade has just been identified in flatworms. Named "ruptoblast," it ...

New research has shown how collaboration can even be beneficial in the microbial world. A study reported in Science has outlined how bacterial cells can work in unison to survive antibiotic exposure.

Memory is foundational to our human experience. By tracking and storing our experiences, it helps us navigate the world and ...

(Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) One of the world's largest uranium mines, the Wismut GmbH Schlema-Alberoda ...

A metabolic byproduct formed when gut bacteria break down dietary fiber appears to protect against dangerous fungal ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that tiny photosynthetic bacteria band together into ...

Researchers have revealed how bacteria precisely control the genes that trigger cell division. The study shows that the MraZ protein, which normally forms a donut-shaped structure, must bend and ...

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and Kiel University (CAU) have examined immune system function in an early-branching animal—a sea anemone. They discovered that the immune ...

Certain gut bacteria may influence the odds of developing MS, in part by altering the activity of specific immune cells, ...