Bacteria are also able to communicate with each other through chemical signals, a behavior known as quorum signaling (QS). These chemical signals spread through a biofilm that colonies of bacteria ...

Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the United States, announced the publication of new research in PLOS Pathogens identifying a novel mechanism that may trigger ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

Bacteria are traditionally imagined as single-cell organisms, spread out sparsely over surfaces or suspended in liquids, but in many environments the true bacterial mode of growth is in sticky ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

Microplastics have officially entered your food chain — and they might be transforming bacteria into superbugs. A University of Illinois study found that certain charged nanoplastics can boost the ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines of attack is to cling tenaciously to the surfaces of targeted human cells.