The first evidence that bacteria can convert toxic uranium dissolved in water into a stable chemical compound.

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When antibiotics attack microbes, their stressed neighbors ship them proteins to help them survive, new work suggests.

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), together with Wismut GmbH and scientists from the University ...

A metabolic byproduct formed when gut bacteria break down dietary fiber appears to protect against dangerous fungal ...

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...

Fast identification of bacteria is important in health care, food safety, environmental monitoring and infection control. One ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

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Scientists have uncovered an elegant biophysical trick that tuberculosis-causing bacteria use to survive inside human cells, a discovery that could lead to new strategies for fighting one of the world ...

Certain gut bacteria may influence the odds of developing MS, in part by altering the activity of specific immune cells, ...