When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a ...

Now, a University at Buffalo-led team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three ...

Now, a UB-led team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the ...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other ...

In short, while bacteria may not have “sex lives” in the way humans do, their frequent DNA exchanges play a crucial role in ...

A COMMON bacteria found in the mouth and gut could raise the risk of a deadly health emergency, scientists say. Higher levels of the bacteria Streptococcus anginosus was found in the gut of recent ...