Microbiology

These bacteria usually eat natural polyesters, like those found in the outer coating of plant cells.

The blob-like organelle drives bone metastasis, but likely also plays a role in the healthy functioning of the cell.

Bacteria carried by humidity from a family's indoor swimming pool sent a teen boy to the emergency room with severe breathing difficulties.

Early life may have been far more like animals than we thought, suggests new research that shows bacteria can 'develop' like an embryo.

Scientists have known about these 'blobs of fat' for more than 130 years, but they're just understanding all the roles they play in the body.

Single-cell microbes known as bacteria are simpler than most forms of life, yet they are still intriguingly complex.

Scientists found the 'secret molecule' that allows Geobacter microbes to exhale electrons over vast distances underground

The microbes had been dormant below the ocean floor for eons, buried since the time of the dinosaurs. Then a team of scientists in Japan woke the little organisms up.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria may be able to pass their genes on to others.

A woman's pet rat gave her a potentially fatal illness known as "rat bite fever."