The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating samples brought back to Earth ...

In this video, we see what happens when vinegar and bacteria interact underneath a microscope. This bacteria is taken from ...

a process that is crucial for the survival of all bacteria. “Thanks to advanced cryogenic electron microscope imaging and state-of-the-art biochemical analysis, we have been able to describe in ...

Scientists have identified many types of bacteria in the mouth, but many problems remain in understanding how they work with ...

Bree Aldridge, a professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts and one of the study's co-senior authors, said that ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

There's some good news about sexually-transmitted diseases in newly released U.S. health data. The syphilis epidemic slowed ...

Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world suffer from urinary tract infections every year. Some groups are ...