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Researchers have made tiny "skyscrapers" for communities of bacteria, helping them to generate electricity from just sunlight and water.

According to research, human immune cells not only circulate in the blood, but can also occupy certain tissues and sometimes remain there for years.

When exposed to stress, such as nutrient deficiency or heat, bacteria allow their metabolism to take a break.

Recent molecular findings offer new details on how Nipah and Hendra viruses attack cells, and the immune responses that try to counter this onslaught. The results point toward multi-pronged tactics to prevent and treat these deadly illnesses.

A study has identified six proteins that could indicate higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, one of which determines blood groups. This suggests that blood groups play a role in determining whether an individual develops severe COVID-19.

People living in densely populated slums or favelas with limited access to healthcare have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, but a new study has shown that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is effective in these populations.

A synergistic combination of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and deep learning serves as an effective platform for separation-free detection of bacteria in arbitrary media.

Chemists and biologists have developed a tiny device that can locate tumor cells and force them to reveal themselves to patrolling immune cells.

Biologists have discovered speargun-​like molecular injection systems, that could be useful tools in biomedicine, in two types of bacteria and described their structure.

The effectiveness of mRNA vaccines is reduced against all three subvariants of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 and only one authorized treatment is able to combat all of the subvariants.