A mysterious bacterial outbreak has put a Melbourne suburb on alert, with health authorities scrambling to trace its source after multiple people were hospitalised.

Treatments that target a fragment of the mutant protein that causes Huntington's disease might be more effective than ...

A new study, led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Columbia University, identifies a diverse set of ...

You would think that in this day and age, with the collective knowledge of humankind easily accessible via the internet, ...

Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of ...

When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

Our limited understanding of the metabolism of our microbial ancestor is a sizeable gap in our knowledge of how complex life originated. Resolving whether our closest microbial relatives had ...

Just a single course of treatment can leave a lasting impression, according to a study of nearly 15,000 people in Sweden ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed a new drug candidate that significantly enhances the effectiveness of the antibiotic metronidazole against Helicobacter pylori, a ...

Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of individual human cells infected with bacteria that model tuberculosis – and ...