Researchers at Boston University have found that microplastics (MPs) provide an ideal platform for bacteria to form ...

The founders of Bugworks Research are attempting to bring to market a new class of antibiotics--a first in almost half a ...

As well as degrading proteins, the proteosome surprisingly also functions in human defence against bacterial infection. By ...

Researchers at LSU are discovering a way to fight back against drug-resistant bacteria through a new medicine.

A synthetic microbiome therapy, tested in mice, holds promise as a new treatment for C. difficile, a notoriously difficult-to-treat bacterial infection, according to a team of researchers. The ...

The rise of antibiotic resistance demands urgent research into its molecular mechanisms to inform the development of ...

More than 40,000 previously unknown gut microbes in African populations could completely change how medicines work for ...

Biofilms, ubiquitous bacterial communities embedded in a slimy matrix, are the oldest form of multicellularity on Earth; they ...

Microplastics, like the ones pictured here, have been linked to several health concerns. Researchers from Boston University ...

A new study published in PLOS Genetics has identified an extreme mutational hotspot within the genome of Pseudomonas ...

"Here’s a garbage can, proteasome," she shows a magnified example of a molecule. "Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, ...

The results surprised the researchers when they showed that a single peptide that is naturally made by the body can prove ...