Antimicrobial resistance—when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs designed to kill them—is an urgent ...

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

A mechanism of antiviral immunity in bacteria has been characterized. A research team from Umeå University (Sweden) has uncovered a mechanism for how bacteria build up antiviral immunity against ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." Scientists ...

A bacteria-only sugar has become the Achilles’ heel that could help defeat deadly superbugs.

Australian researchers have developed a powerful new way to target deadly, drug-resistant bacteria by designing antibodies ...

A new study reveals how bacteria in the gut can help determine whether the amino acid asparagine from the diet will feed ...

It sounds a bit like something out of science fiction, but a topical vaccine that is rubbed on the skin is now closer to reality than ever before. In a new study led by Stanford University scientists, ...

Scientists have discovered that erucamide, a plant-produced fatty acid amide, disrupts the function of the bacterial injectosome—a syringe-like nanomachine that some pathogenic bacteria use to help ...