If you are anything like us, whenever you plan a journey, you spend a remarkable amount of time thinking about the start and ...

Every year, bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In ...

A new intranasal DNA vaccine may give the immune system an extra weapon against tuberculosis by targeting bacteria that can ...

Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

An experimental DNA-based nasal vaccine has shown promising results against tuberculosis (TB) in animal studies, raising ...

In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in ...

WASHINGTON, 4th July, 2026 (WAM) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed an experimental therapeutic DNA vaccine for ...

Soil bacteria make cocktails of molecules that synergistically inhibit the growth of microbial pathogens — suggesting a ...

Four antibiotic compounds produced in Streptomyces bacteria attack multiple parts of an essential metabolic pathway.

The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild.

(Erik Karits/Unsplash) Cockroaches tend to be thought of as the creatures that keep on living through anything, in part due to their DNA – which can code for all kinds of useful survival tricks, from ...