Bacteria detect cell wall fragments as danger signals and form protective biofilms, a survival strategy seen across species ...

They can create pearls and are rumoured to have aphrodisiac properties, but oysters might have a more serious role to play in ...

University of Basel researchers have discovered that bacteria can sense threats in advance through a general danger signal. Bacteria detect when ...

Bacteriophages infecting bacteria, illustration ... of five account for almost one-third of all illnesses, with 125,000 dying every year. Bacteriophages have the potential to reduce global ...

and in particular how these bacteria acquire the nutrients they need for their massive replication, yet keep their host cells from dying," says Niko Leisch, co-senior author together with Nicole ...

Some scientists fear that we are fighting a losing battle against resistant bacteria, which may ultimately lead to people dying from simple infections, for example following operations.

Bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics is ... including 10 million people dying every year from drug-resistant infections by 2050. Projections of deaths from drug-resistant infections by ...