Immunizing mice with an edited Lyme disease-causing bacterial protein effectively protected them against the disease.

Bacterial genetics is the study of the mechanisms of heritable information in bacteria, their chromosomes, plasmids, transposons and phages. Techniques that have enabled this discipline are ...

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Dead bacteria release an enzyme that breaks down their contents into nutrients for other bacteria, highlighting a novel ...

This week brings some progress on the other side of the equation, with a team of Korean researchers describing how they've engineered a bacterial strain that can make a useful polymer starting ...

Cancer researchers in China who have been experimenting with bacteria may have cracked the deadliest puzzle hindering treatment of the disease: how to eliminate cancers while evading human immune ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. New research suggests that bacterial vaginosis, a ...

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) has been considered a bacterial imbalance in the vagina, rather than a sexually transmitted infection (STI). New research is challenging this assumption. A study published in ...

For decades, bacterial vaginosis has been treated as a women’s health issue—but new research suggests treating male partners could dramatically cut recurrence rates. A scanning electron ...

All are broad-spectrum antibiotics used to treat many different types of bacterial illness. When the E. coli biofilms were on microplastics, they grew dramatically faster, larger and more ...

Furthermore, Safe Star’s mechanical medium with very high bacterial and viral filtration efficiency rates reduces the passage of airborne microorganisms to a considerable extent. This ...