Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

Bacteria get invaded by viruses called phages.Scientists are studying how bacteria use CRISPR to defend themselves from ...

The findings help scientists better understand how bacterial cells that cause serious diseases, including Staph and E. coli infections and cholera, become toxic to humans -- a process that ...

A pair of environmental engineers at the National University of Singapore has found that many bacteria in common sewer water are able to detoxify tetrachloroethene. In their study published in the ...

The discovery sheds light on how certain bacteria -- including strains that cause food poisoning and anthrax -- form spores for survival.

Biology might ultimately provide a solution, however. Researchers have identified bacteria that evolved the ability to digest ...

Confronting images of dead seadragons , fish and octopuses washed up on South Australian beaches - and disturbing reports of " more than 100 ...

That seemingly spotless glass, brimming with your go-to tipple, might be teeming with dangerous bacteria according to doctors ...