Our bodies are a constant battlefield between pathogens and our immune system. But beyond this battle, there’s a larger war being fought between humans and drug-resistant bacteria. When antibiotics ...

A team has constructed an improved mid-infrared microscope, enabling them to see the structures inside living bacteria at the nanometer scale. Mid-infrared microscopy is typically limited by its low ...

The new study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, revealed in high-resolution images and biochemical experiments ...

A team led by UCL (University College London) and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how ...

The University College London and Imperial College London focused on antibiotics called Polymyxin B, which kill harmful Gram-negative bacteria like E. coli. These bacteria are highly difficult to ...

In 1970, Richard Blakemore noticed bacteria he had taken from Woods Hole in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, behaving strangely. The bacteria followed the pull of a magnet. They were the first of their kind ...

On September 17, 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a Delft cloth merchant with handmade microscopes, astonished the Royal Society by reporting “animalcules” — the first glimpse of bacteria and ...

Short peptides can self-assemble into net-like structures that kill bacteria. Now, researchers have discovered how to control ...

The work, described in a preprint paper, has the potential to create new treatments and accelerate research into artificially ...