Some of the bacteria in our guts was passed down from a time before we were even human, it has been discovered. Bacteria in our gut helps to guide the early development of our intestines and train our ...

Scientists are uncovering a surprising way to influence bacteria—not by killing them, but by changing how they communicate.

When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful ...

A recent study published in Nature Microbiology examined the motility behavior of copiotrophic marine bacteria under starvation. The researchers found that some bacterial strains stop moving to ...