Australian researchers have developed a powerful new way to target deadly, drug-resistant bacteria by designing antibodies ...

A bacteria-only sugar has become the Achilles’ heel that could help defeat deadly superbugs.

Discover the potential of lab-made antibodies in targeting drug-resistant bacteria and fighting hospital-acquired infections.

Researchers have uncovered a microscopic weapon that can literally tear viruses apart from the inside, a single protein that turns a cell’s own DNA into a tripwire. Instead of blocking infection at ...

Antibiotic resistance is considered one of the most urgent health threats of our time. Common bacteria such as E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus are evolving defenses against the drugs doctors rely on ...

How did cells evolve a process to end their own lives? Recent research suggests that apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, first arose billions of years ago in bacteria with a primitive ...

New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of ...

For billions of years, viruses and bacteria have been embroiled in an arms race. In response to constant attacks by viruses known as bacteriophages—more commonly called "phages"—bacteria evolve new ...

Sukrit Silas and his colleagues at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco discovered that a well-known defense system in some bacteria can kill the cell as a last resort if viruses try to thwart it ...