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A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Tucking into Christmas leftovers after Boxing Day could make you seriously ill, food safety chiefs have warned.

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Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a tiny RNA molecule that can potentially lead the way toward treatments against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Called PreS, the ...

Between Halloween candy, Thanksgiving pies and holiday cookies, the end of the year is often packed with opportunities to consume sugar. But what happens in your mouth during those first minutes and ...

Researchers at Stockholm University have made unexpected discoveries regarding a significant, previously unexamined group of bacteria, with some sourced from Swedish lakes.

Scientists didn’t understand how bacteria divide up carbon sources into different paths for energy or to build new materials. Professor Ludmilla Aristilde; Professor Niall Mangan; Postdoctoral ...

In a new study published in Cancer Cell titled, “Tumor-infiltrating bacteria disrupt cancer epithelial cell interactions and induce cell-cycle arrest,” researchers from the University of Texas MD ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua W. Modell ...