microbiology

Finding an effective antibiotic against an infection can easily take 24 hours. Faster testing could save lives and help doctors avoid broad-spectrum antibiotics, which can foster resistance.

Fungi disrupt microbial communities on cheese by making antibiotics. 

Uncovering the components used by Aspergillus fumigatus to avoid intracellular destruction broadens our understanding of the mold’s pathogenesis. 

Biofilms are home to millions of microbes, but disrupting their interactions could produce more effective antibiotics.

A moonlit drive inspired the theory behind PCR. What did it take to make that wild idea reality?

Free-swimming bacteria settle on a surface to cooperate and form a protective biofilm.

Animal cells cannot produce 9 of the 20 amino acids they need to function. Some researchers are looking to change that.

The winding trail of environmental microplastics leads researchers to the human digestive ecosystem.

Bacteria cooperate to benefit the collective, but cheaters can rig the system. How is the balance maintained?

From spatial structuring to policing, cooperative bacteria have a wide toolkit to contain the spread of cheaters.

Microbiomes transplanted from women with anorexia nervosa into mice enhanced symptoms of the eating disorder, such as rapid weight loss and reduced appetite.

Researchers repurpose tiny bacterial injection systems to specifically inject a wide variety of proteins into human cells and living mice.

Urinary tract infections leave permanent epigenetic marks in the mouse bladder epithelium, reprogramming its response to subsequent infections, a study finds.

Aging cells with weakened gene regulation spuriously transcribe RNAs, but their impact on health and longevity still needs to be examined.