Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

In tight spaces that trap most microbes, one bacterium keeps moving by reconfiguring how it swims, revealing a new biological ...

In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their potential use in a host of biotechnological processes to benefit humankind, from ...

Common gut bacteria use protein delivery systems to interact directly with human cells, reshaping how scientists view the ...

Watch a white blood cell actively searching for bacteria or viruses under the microscope.