Curing infections without killing bacteria.

In the 1940s, scientists made a discovery now fundamental to biology: genes are encoded in DNA. The story involves bacteria, dead mice, and a kitchen cream separator.

In the 1940s, scientists made a discovery now fundamental to biology: genes are encoded in DNA. The story involves bacteria, dead mice, and a kitchen cream separator.

Twain's story about a scientist who's turned into a "cholera germ" and sees the microbial world from a germ's-eye-view

Names matter; they are not mere labels. They operate as anchors of memory, social coordinates, and references of collective identity. When a name becomes established through long-term use and broad ad...

Finding clues to what's next in 500-million-year-old fossils.

by Roberto — Microbiologists continue to advance the frontiers of knowledge.

Military metaphors are pervasive in the language of antibiotics and resistance [1]. Bacterial pathogens are foreign invaders with whom we are at war. To fight them, we deploy antibiotic chemical weapo...

Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.

Generations of microbes evolve in hours, not millennia. By speeding up Darwin’s clock, scientists have watched evolution happen in real time, and it’s changed how we understand natural selection.

New tools to protect the gut microbiome come from an unlikely source: antibiotic-destroying enzymes from bacterial pathogens

If the Eiffel Tower were to represent the history of life on Earth, how far down would the history of Homo sapiens begin?

Discovery of a new class of broad-spectrum antibiotic, a lasso-shaped molecule call lariocidin, in slow-growing soil bacteria.

Color palette package inspired by National Parks. Contribute to kevinsblake/NatParksPalettes development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Evolution of STEM is a wonderful new set marred by an unfortunate scientific inaccuracy.

Bacteria can use different mechanisms to become resistant to the same antibiotic class. Here, the authors study bacterial strains that express genes conferring tetracycline resistance via different me...