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Just like every other creature, bacteria have evolved creative ways of getting around. Sometimes this is easy, like swimming ...

Early in 2025, scientists discovered a promising new antibiotic in a soil sample from a lab technician's backyard. The ...

Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, ...

The PRoRota-project will use probiotics, improved education in hygiene and advanced mathematical models to prevent children ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Scientists reveal how bacteria switch direction through a microscopic tug-of-war inside their motors, driven by energy and ...

Virus-built silver nanoparticles kill drug-resistant bacteria at ultra-low doses and slow resistance development by 10-fold.

Project Wolbachia is expanding to four new areas in Singapore, increasing coverage and aiming to control the Aedes mosquito ...

ESA project called HOBI-WAN is testing a bacterial protein in microgravity to produce and grow food in space, reducing supply ...