"Cleanup will take at least 30 days" because that's how long leptospirosis can live in soil, said the city, calling it an ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Allergies and asthma affect an increasing number of children worldwide, but now an international research group led by DTU ...

Peter Atkinson was hospitalized with necrotizing fasciitis, a rare flesh-eating bacteria that can be deadly in about 1 in 5 ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

The FDA announced that a recall of cheese products has been upgraded to the most serious risk category after testing positive ...

Many everyday chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria and potentially fuel antibiotic resistance, prompting calls to ...

Somehow, 26 new species of bacteria have managed to survive in the harshest place on Earth -- a NASA cleanroom.

Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species that survived the extreme sterilization protocols of NASA cleanrooms ...