Whether in the human body or on surfaces, bacteria protect themselves from outside attackers using biofilms. Physicist ...

When harmful bacteria that cause food poisoning, such as E. coli, invade through the digestive tract, gut cells usually fight back by pushing infected cells out of the body to stop the infection from ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich, in collaboration with Balgrist University Hospital, have now developed a rapid test that employs the natural viral predators of bacteria, bacteriophages. The researchers ...

Amplicon-based sequencing may boost severe pneumonia diagnosis in ICU, particularly for fungal infections and ...

Infection with the pathogenic yeast fungus Candida auris (C. auris) can wreak havoc on the health of hospital patients and ...

Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis, while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a significant public health threat. According to the German Center for Infection Research, an estimated 4.95 million deaths worldwide in 2019 were directly or ...

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

This illustration depicts a photomicrographic view of Streptococcus (Diplococcus) pneumoniae bacteria, using Gram-stain technique, 1979. Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the most common organisms ...

Humans have long had a love-hate relationship with bacteria. While there are bacterial strains that humans cannot live without, such as those that help us digest our food and bolster our immune ...