Kingston, WA - A Washington State family is appealing to the public for support as they face a devastating medical crisis.

Imagine a bacterial cell—one of the multi-drug-resistant varieties that keep infectious disease experts up at night—blown ...

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have discovered surface patterns that can drastically reduce bacteria's ability to ...

Scientists discovered a key protein, MigC, that helps a dangerous superbug, *A. baumannii*, build its protective outer layer ...

Understanding the truth behind penicillin allergy is crucial—not just for your personal care, but for public health and ...

Beards have long attracted suspicion, sometimes seen as stylish, sometimes as unsanitary. But how dirty are they, really?

The array of health care-associated infections, ranging from catheter-associated UTIs to Clostridioides difficile colitis, ...

A research group in Korea has discovered a novel natural antimicrobial peptide, 'Hirunipin-2,' from the salivary glands of the medicinal leech (Hirudo ...

but it's not well-understood how those glycans help to defend the bacteria. One reason for that is that there hasn't been an easy way to label them inside cells. MIT chemists have now overcome ...

This toxin can destroy neighboring bacterial cells if they lack immunity genes that the ... of bacteria might reshape how we categorize viruses. Past labels like “rare curiosity” no longer fit, given ...

This open-label, randomized ... None of these six had clue cells present, so their trial end point was defined as no recurrence of bacterial vaginosis for the primary outcome.

No one knows for sure ... binds pages into packets and labels them. “They’ve got the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, peroxisomes, lysosomes, vacuoles — all this machinery not present in ...