Research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and genetic history.

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

Increasing diversity of artificial sweeteners stimulates a subset of soil bacteria to activate extracellular vesicle (EV) biogenesis pathways. These vesicles selectively package and release antibiotic ...

Phages are important components of the human gut microbiome. Through interactions with bacteria—such as infecting and lysing ...

A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars, a ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known as C. diff—are a serious and persistent problem for patients and hospitals ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

A study conducted by scientists from the Institut Pasteur has revealed that microbes protect the lungs from subsequently developing allergies and asthma. This long-term protection is "memorized" not ...

A recent review finds that microalgal niches in freshwater ecosystems may concentrate antibiotic resistance genes, raising environmental and public health concerns.

A recent study utilizing cryo-EM advances our understanding of how bacterial immune systems function and reveals new aspects ...

A Dartmouth College research team has reported that plasmids can force bacteria to form dense clusters in order to tolerate antibiotics which suggests a source of treatment failure that does not ...