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 ...

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.

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm.

For Shaw, the fight against drug-resistant bacteria is personal. Growing up in England, he developed a chronic staph infection after hip surgery as a teenager. The infection, caused by ...