Plants are quietly borrowing tricks from bacteria, repurposing foreign genes to build complex molecules that look a lot like ...

Plants make substances called alkaloids to protect themselves, and humans have long taken advantage of these chemicals, using ...

The CDC is no longer recommending that all adolescents and teens get vaccinated for potentially fatal bacterial meningitis, ...

A toxin secreted by cholera bacteria can inhibit the growth of colorectal cancer without causing any measurable damage to the ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...

Adult bacterial meningitis carries high mortality and neurological complications, especially from Listeria and Streptococcus ...

New research shows that 'hacking' the communication channels between microbes in the mouth could boost levels of beneficial ...

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...