A rare microorganism could escape Earth’s most stringent spacecraft clean rooms and infiltrate space — or another planet — by using this spooky trick. It plays dead. Microbiologists at the University ...

Dogs with healthy bodies do a great job of fighting off infections; but sometimes their immune systems are overwhelmed, and your pup gets sick. While we never want to think about our fur babies being ...

NEW YORK — Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists.

1 Moorfields Eye Hospital, 162 City Rd, London EC1V 2PD, UK 1 Moorfields Eye Hospital, 162 City Rd, London EC1V 2PD, UK Corneal laser refractive surgery is an increasingly common form of optical ...

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Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a common type of bacterium that is usually harmless to many people, but for others can cause potentially life-threatening infections. Now, a new study gives a ...

1 BOSTON, Assistant in Clinical Bacteriology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Bacteriology, Harvard Medical School; 2 BOSTON, Visiting Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; ...

An organism as a tenant in another -- in biology, this often works quite well. Researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish itself. Endosymbiosis is a ...

A bizarre bacteria has been discovered with an ability previously thought impossible for its kind. This strange discovery could shine a light on how some of our earliest single-celled ancestors formed ...