Scientists have discovered a common gut bacterium that lowers body weight and blood sugar while increasing bone density. The ...

The team from Tel Aviv University developed a vaccine to combat the bacterium that causes the black plague, using the same system as with the COVID-19 vaccines.

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

A renowned scientific journal has retracted a paper 15 years after it was published. Science on Thursday withdrew the work on a bacterium that was published by a team of researchers from NASA and ...

A common bacterium that infects mosquitoes is showing promise as a way to control the spread of dengue fever. Transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, dengue fever kills around 12,500 people a ...

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers analyzed the interactions between two bacteria that make up intestinal microbiota.

Scientists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Biological Research say their vaccine uses lipid ...

The magnetotactic bacterium Magnetococcus marinus lives in marine sediments. Its apparent swimming speed, which is very fast, was previously estimated at 100 μm/s. Spherical in shape, it has two packs ...

The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of hard-to-treat human infections. It now seems that, if the bacterium is infected by a virus, a viral enzyme helps the microbe to evade ...

Mizzou scientist discovers how a deadly bacterium spread by the lone star tick survives, bringing hope for new treatments.

A popular cheese brand sold in parts of Canada is being pulled from store shelves due to possible contamination with Listeria ...