Researchers might have just stumbled upon a potential answer to why younger adults are getting more colorectal cancer—without ...

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's along with an international team of researchers have discovered a surprising new ...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

Inspired by sea sponges, researchers created living micro-lenses from bacteria that may improve medical and industrial ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage -- phage for short -- that has allowed them to see for the first time the structural makeup of the part of the phage that ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

Understanding how bacteria form communities on surfaces, including biofilms, has significant implications for both health and ...

“When phage infect a bacterial cell, the EPI vesicle protects the genome of the virus during early stages of infection when it’s very vulnerable,” said Emily Armbruster, a UC San Diego School of ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

The presence of so-called clue cells – vaginal epithelial cells with such a heavy coating of bacteria that the peripheral borders are obscured – on saline wet mount; A fishy or amine odor ...

Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...