Bacterial sensory systems represent a dynamic and rapidly evolving area at the intersection of molecular microbiology and biochemistry, where recent ...

Unknown germs are a common occurrence in hospitals. Researchers at the University of Basel have spent many years collecting and analyzing them. They have identified many new species of bacteria, some ...

Bacterial infections can be treated more efficiently if the cause of the disease is known. In most cases, all it takes to identify a pathogen is an analysis in a medical laboratory. Sometimes, however ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth’s surface almost 3000 million ...

Antibiotic resistance is often framed as a hospital problem, but a growing body of evidence shows that rivers, soils, ...