Bacteriophages are viruses that selectively target and kill bacteria. They are abundant, commonly occurring natural entities ...

An insect ecology professor at the University of Kentucky explored her research on how bacteria affects spider reproduction ...

Researchers have identified a new way to fight infections like Lyme disease and syphilis by disrupting the bacteria's "motor, ...

percent of 20 different smartwatch wristbands tested were contaminated with bacteria capable of causing disease.

Transposons, or "jumping genes"—DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another—are key to bacterial evolution ... need a way to move to new hosts. By inserting into the ...

All are broad-spectrum antibiotics used to treat many different types of bacterial illness. When the E. coli biofilms were on microplastics, they grew dramatically faster, larger and more ...