Bacteria are traditionally imagined as single-cell organisms, spread out sparsely over surfaces or suspended in liquids, but in many environments the true bacterial mode of growth is in sticky ...

MIT researchers showed that the lectin intelectin-2 bound bacterial sugars and mucus galactose, strengthening the gut barrier ...

Scientists have found that antibodies stop UTI-causing E. coli by jamming or mimicking cell receptors, preventing bacterial ...

"The UN estimates that by 2050, common bacterial infections could kill more people than cancer," says Arnold Mathijssen, a ...

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life. “I was quite shocked, truly,” said ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...