25 February 2022
The outer coat of the antibiotic-resistant bacterium Clostridium difficile has a structure similar to chain mail that stops drugs and immune system cells from killing it
20 January 2022
About 1.3 million deaths were directly caused by drug-resistant bacterial infections in 2019, a global study estimates
6 January 2022
Bacterial biofilms, slimy collections of microbes, can develop concentric rings containing cells with different biological features
24 November 2021
Feeding mice a probiotic of harmless bacteria helps prevent harmful microbes entering the blood where they could build up and potentially cause a condition called sepsis
23 November 2021
A living ink made entirely from bacterial cells can be 3D-printed to make structures that release anti-cancer drugs or mop up toxins from the environment
6 September 2021
Men fed a plant-based diet farted seven times more per day and had bigger stools than when they were on a Western diet because their “good” bacteria flourished
7 June 2021
People who travel to countries with a higher prevalence of antibiotic resistance are unwittingly bringing genes for resistance home in their gut bacteria
10 March 2021
Dr Wu Lien-teh helped to end the Manchurian plague outbreak of 1910-11 with the use of face masks he had designed made from cotton and gauze, and stopped the disease from reaching other parts of China
9 March 2021
An infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
11 January 2021
Biologists have used CRISPR gene editing to store information inside DNA in living bacterial cells, which could become a storage medium of the future
