Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have imaged a heritable form of bacterial symbiosis inside the ...

From medicine to agriculture and aquaculture, bacteriophages are poised to have a huge global impact. As viruses which target ...

Ostracods, sometimes called seed shrimp, are nearly microscopic, aquatic organisms, inhabiting all types of marine and freshwater environments. Using fluorescence microscopy, the team discovered that ...

So, what are retrons? They’re bacterial immune systems that save the bacterial herd by culling individual bacteria infected ...

According to the researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Oslo, the University of Helsinki, Aalto ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that a specific E. coli strain, ST131-A, spreads as rapidly as flu viruses, challenging ...

Using genomic data from the UK and Norway, scientists modelled bacterial transmission rates and discovered key differences between strains ...

Escherichia coli (E. coli), a type of bacteria commonly found in the human gut, could spread as quickly as swine flu, new ...

Escherichia coli (E. coli) is the most common cause of urinary tract and bloodstream infections worldwide. Several variants ...