Learn how plastic pollution is creating new pathways for antibiotic resistance to become an even bigger public health threat.

Plastics entering natural environments quickly become coated with microbial biofilms called the 'plastisphere', known to be ...

Plastic pollution does more than litter landscapes and oceans. According to a new perspective article published in ...

Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They’re invisible to the human eye. They’re everywhere. And both can make us sick. Bacteria and viruses ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are ...

Urban wild bees carry microbial signatures in their guts that reveal stresses of city living, from limited food to pollution ...

Marine bacteria are key to determining whether carbon is recycled near the ocean surface or transported to deeper waters, but ...

Bacteria use a short RNA guide to detect viruses and activate a self-destruct mechanism that protects the wider microbial ...

Peering through his microscope in 1910, Franco-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle noticed some "clear spots" in his bacterial cultures, an anomaly that turned out to be viruses preying on the ...

Viruses may get a bad rap, but some of them can be helpful to fight off bacterial infections. ETH Zurich scientists have demonstrated a new way to use them to diagnose which bacteria is causing a UTI, ...

Share on Pinterest Design by MNT; Photography by Phynart Studio/Getty Images & Mark Jepson/Wellcome Collection. Researchers examined the microbiomes of centenarians from Japan and Sardinia. They found ...