A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: ...

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Researchers have revealed how Staphylococcus aureus bacteria extract iron from hemoglobin—a process crucial to their survival ...

Now that the mechanism has been identified, the researchers are using chemical and mechanical manipulations to disrupt the process, so that antibiotics can work unimpeded. Some bacteria are more ...

A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive ... to disrupt the process, so that antibiotics can work unimpeded. The research, under embargo ...

The crucial drugs can have unintended consequences. Innovative therapies could shield the microbiome from their effects.

Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria in ...

Biomedical engineers have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, such as ...

Vatican authorities said Monday that Pope Francis is suffering from a “polymicrobial respiratory tract infection.” Experts ...

It's important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the ...