Imaging-based single-cell physiological profiling holds great potential for uncovering fundamental bacterial cold shock response (CSR) mechanisms, but its application is impeded by severe focus drift ...

Study shows how viral single-gene lysis proteins lock the peptidoglycan flippase MurJ into an outward-facing state ...

A bacterium famous for shrugging off extreme radiation has now survived the violent shock of a simulated asteroid impact, adding hard experimental evidence to the idea that microbes could travel ...

The origin of the nucleus remains hotly debated among scientists, but new imaging and genomic data are shedding light on this billion-year-old mystery.

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of "The War of the Worlds" scenario ...

Researchers at São Paulo State University have developed an iron-based compound, loaded into lipid nanoparticles, that completely eliminated tuberculosis bacteria from the lungs of infected mice after ...

Study reveals how two proteins cooperate in a key early step of antiviral detection, as reported by researchers at Science ...

It’s crucial not to confuse viruses with bacteria, as viruses are infectious agents that can be pathogenic to the organisms they invade. To survive and replicate, these microorganisms absolutely must ...

Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that several unrelated viruses disable a key bacterial ...

Antibiotic resistance is rising fast, killing tens of thousands each year in the U.S. alone—and scientists are racing to find new ways to stop deadly bacteria. Now, researchers have uncovered how tiny ...

For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read.