In an unexpected finding, a UCLA-led team has discovered that bacteria are present inside the most common type of kidney ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

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

Swabs from China's Tiangong space station reveal traces of a bacterium unseen on Earth, with characteristics that may help it function under stressful environmental conditions hundreds of kilometers ...

The deep-sea coral Callogorgia delta is often found in the Gulf of Mexico near cold seeps. The pink-coloured brittle stars are probably useful for the corals. The photo was taken at a depth of 439 ...

The search for life in space has led astronomers to look everywhere from the surface of Mars to the atmospheres of the most distant exoplanets. Now, scientists have discovered unknown bacteria that ...

Scientists have infected bacteria with a virus aboard the International Space Station to see how they would interact in ...

Spacecraft are assembled in specialized “cleanrooms” that are designed to avoid contamination from dust and microorganisms. But bacteria called extremophiles have genetic components that allow them to ...

A previously unknown protein in a family of bacteria found in soil and the human gut microbiome has been discovered – which could help drug delivery in cancer treatment. In a paper published in PNAS, ...

Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...

What the research is about Shigellosis is an infectious disease that causes severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bloody ...