Just like every other creature, bacteria have evolved creative ways of getting around. Sometimes this is easy, like swimming ...

Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, ...

Inflammatory gut bacteria that carry proteins structurally similar to myelin may trigger the development and progression of ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

That was the first finding of the study. The second was that the bacteria had acquired mutations while being in microgravity, ...

In the classic “run-and-tumble” movement pattern, bacteria swim forward (“run”) in one direction and then stop to rotate and reorient themselves in a new direction (“tumble”). During experiments where ...

Bacteria get invaded by viruses called phages. Scientists are studying how bacteria use CRISPR to defend themselves from phages, which will inform new phage-based treatments for bacterial infections ...

A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, ...