Antibiotics have saved countless lives and are a crucial tool in modern medicine. But we’re losing ground in our battle against bacteria. In the...

IntroductionNearly a century ago, the evolutionary theorist Sewall Wright imagined a landscape of mountains and valleys. The peaks represented states of high evolutionary fitness...

Bacteria may seem like a strange ally in the battle against cancer.But in a new study, genetically engineered bacteria were part of a tag-team...

IntroductionEvery organism responds to the world with an intricate cascade of biochemistry. There’s a source of heat here, a faint scent of food there,...

Scientists in New Zealand have combined two wavelengths of light to deactivate a bacterium that...

Gene therapies could revolutionize medicine, but getting them into peoples’ bodies is harder than it might seem. A new method that re-purposes viruses that...

IntroductionLife on other worlds — if it exists — might be so alien as to be unrecognizable. There’s no guarantee that alien biology would...

A new nanowire structure that can be grown by a common bacterium could be used as an “electronic nose” to detect...

IntroductionOur bodies consist of about 30 trillion human cells, but they also host about 39 trillion microbial cells. These teeming communities of bacteria, viruses,...

The intrinsic resilience of biofilms to environmental conditions makes them an attractive platform for biocatalysis, bioremediation, agriculture, or consumer health. However, one of the...