Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have ...

The quest for new antibiotics is going back to the Stone Age. The urgency to identify possible candidates has never been greater as the global population faces nearly 5 million deaths every year that ...

When it comes to having a sweet tooth, bacteria take the cake. Which is why, in a new study in mice and lab-dish cells, researchers were able to use the sweet stuff to lure bacteria out of hiding and ...

We're still a long way from a “cure” for cancer. But one day we could have programmable, self-navigating bacteria that find tumours, release treatment only where needed, then vanish without a trace.

Scientists have found a way to use common bacteria as tiny, green chemical factories to replace a process that currently ...