Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

A new study finds that a trait helping a marine bacterium survive and flourish today may ultimately become its Achilles Heel as ocean conditions continue to shift.

In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

A bizarre bacteria has been discovered with an ability previously thought impossible for its kind. This strange discovery could shine a light on how some of our earliest single-celled ancestors formed ...

Are all bacterial cells in a group alike? It doesn't seem so. A population of bacterial cells may be heteroresistant, which is to say that some may be able to evade the effects of antibiotics, while ...

Biologists have uncovered a new mode of communication inside cells that helps bacterial pathogens learn how to evade drugs.

It's estimated that 90 percent of the biomass in the oceans is made up of marine microorganisms, a group that includes protists, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses. Microbes lives in some of the ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don’t stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

A living motor made by combining different parts from bacteria is one of the smallest ever built, and could one day power tiny robots. Many types of bacteria are propelled by natural motors that power ...