Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could be genetically manipulated to destroy cancerous cells using the immunity we have ...

When bacteria are under antibiotic attack, it is not "every man for himself." Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and ...

A research team at the University of Greifswald's Research Training Group RTG-PRO "Proteases in pathogen and host: importance ...

Discoveries may help to explain why some bacteria are hard to eliminate, and also point to potential future approaches to improving antibiotic effectiveness.

Chronic psychological stress can help tumors evade immune attack through a chain of molecular events involving gut bacteria ...

Four antibiotic compounds produced in Streptomyces bacteria attack multiple parts of an essential metabolic pathway.

Bacteria can pass proteins between themselves, which induces a dormant state that helps a small group of them survive ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria and are not considered human pathogens. Yet researchers at the ...

A Stanford study has uncovered ruptosis, a rapid immune defence in flatworms where specialised cells explode to destroy ...

Antibiotics are designed to kill bacteria, but they often leave the job incomplete, with a small group of the microbes ...