The most detailed study to date on the mechanisms by which a common type of bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, adapts to ...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenever said ...

Infrequent exposure In bacteria, CRISPR serves as a memory immune response. When bacteria encounter viral DNA, they can incorporate part of the sequence into their own DNA. Then, if the virus is ...

BALTIMORE -- Water quality tests found elevated levels of legionella bacteria have been detected at three Baltimore City courthouses, according to the Baltimore City Mayor's Office. The city said ...

Buruli ulcer, flesh-eating bacteria, is spreading in Australia, with cases being reported from Victoria, North Queensland and the Northern Territory. Its recent appearance in New South Wales (NSW) and ...

A flesh-eating bacteria known as Buruli ulcer has become a growing concern in Australia. This comes as the coastal town of Batemans Bay in New South Wales reported two cases, whereas the southern ...

"Mirror bacteria" being developed in labs could be a looming risk to the health of humanity, scientists have warned. These hypothetical organisms get their name from how their molecules would face ...

Stool cultures revealed that all three were infected with Shigella sonnei, a strain of Shigella bacteria that is resistant to five of the antibiotic classes most commonly prescribed for such ...

Daily briefing: How synthetic ‘mirror life’ bacteria could infect the world We explore what influence Elon Musk might have on US science and hear why creating ‘mirror life’ might be a very ...