Researchers at Durham have helped unlock a new understanding of how bacteria import antimicrobial peptides—the molecules that can kill or inhibit microbes. The research sheds new light on SbmA, a key ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at the University of Basel created a new test that tracks individual bacteria ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory conditions. A critical factor, however, is whether the active substances actually ...

Biofilm of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Rod-shaped and spherical bacteria. E. coli, Pseudomonas, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Klebsiella, Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA. 3D illustration ...

A research team has discovered a previously unknown mechanism by which the immune system fights bacterial infections. The ...

So what do you do when your medicines are ineffective? The answer for some researchers is to build their own biological weapons. A team including experts from the University of Oxford in the UK has ...

More than 35,000 men in the United States die from prostate cancer each year. Now, a new study reveals the immune cell ...