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 ...

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 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 ...

Bdelloid rotifers shrug off radiation doses that would obliterate human cells. Here’s how their resilience reveals deep ...

Skin issues are one of the most common reasons pets end up at the vet. For many itchy dogs and cats, the underlying problem is pyoderma, a bacterial infection of ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in wrinkled seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where traces of early life can survive.