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Building the driving machinery of bacteria, the flagella, requires numerous proteins to be assembled. Adding sugar and the presence of a control point are two key steps identified by scientists.

There is a growing need to develop new treatments that effectively attack deadly strains of bacteria that have become resistant to other medicines. Already used with success in some parts of the world, phage therapy is gaining traction as a more widespread way to fight antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.

Tests on more than 365,000 people in England have shown that the antibody response to the virus that causes COVID-19 wanes over time.

In immunocompromised patients, Enterococcus faecium can lead to potentially life-threatening infection. A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has pioneered an approach combining epidemiological and genomic information to chart the spread of bacteria within healthcare settings.

A recent study has found that sugary drinks and artificially sweetened beverages are associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, which suggests artificially sweetened beverages may not be the healthy alternative they are often claimed to be.

Researchers at Yale University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard screened hundreds of millions of cells exposed to the COVID-19 and MERS viruses and identified genes that both enable the viruses to replicate in cells and those that may prevent it.

Researchers announce the first robust evidence for the role of the major histocompatibility complex gene HLA-B in penicillin allergy to identify genetic risk factors for penicillin allergy.

In a new study published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, University of Illinois researchers and students show SARS-CoV-2 is honing the tactics that may make it more successful and more stable.

The tiniest amount of DNA is being accurately analyzed to identify the origins of old ivory. This clever new technique has the potential to thwart international ivory poachers, by placing the origins of ivory pieces into accurate source locations, thereby identifying specific areas where ivory poachers are actively operating.

Industrial oil-producing microalgae can use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into oils on a large scale. It is a potential solution for the sustainable supply of food, nutrition and fuel for human society.