To deal with the bacteria that cause diseases, some ants produce their own antibiotics

The mechanisms that kill Salmonella at lower temperatures were not fully understood until now, according to a team of researchers

Researchers and medics hope that phages can be engineered to combat certain bacterial infections

An astonishing number of viruses are circulating around the Earth's atmosphere—and falling from it

Researchers have discovered an unforeseen form of flagella-mediated motility shown by pest bean bug symbionts, in which they swim by wrapping their flagellar filaments around their cell bodies

Bacterium C. metallidurans has found a way to extract valuable trace elements from a compound of heavy metals without poisoning itself

A novel lab-on-a-chip can be used to study gene regulation in single bacterial cells in response to dynamically controlled environmental changes

Discovery of C. botulinum toxin in a strain of Enterococcus is raising concern

Understanding bacterial wargames inside our body

A research team has shown that it is possible to rapidly break down solid and liquid waste to grow food with a series of microbial reactors, while simultaneously minimizing pathogen growth