“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Whether in the human body or on surfaces, bacteria protect themselves from outside attackers using biofilms. Physicist ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

As new research suggests that inflammation isn’t just caused by age, but by our lifestyles and environments, Harry Bullmore ...

Researchers report how Paenibacillus avoids harm by its own antibiotic — information that is crucial for developing new drug ...

NASA has some of the cleanest rooms in the world to prevent contamination. But some microbes have found a way inside these sterilized spaces. Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species that ...

A new study suggests that microbes originating outside the brain may influence the earliest stages of neurodegenerative disease. By uncovering a biological pathway linking microbial activity to ...