Researchers at the University of East Anglia have discovered how nitrogen-fixing bacteria sense iron – an essential but deadly micronutrient. Some bacteria naturally fix nitrogen from the soil into a ...

EVERETT — Testing of an unknown orange slimy substance found in the runoff near the Riverside construction side has confirmed that is iron bacteria. The slime was discovered by several walkers along ...

Scientists have discovered that bacteria can create something like memories about when to form strategies that can cause dangerous infections in people, such as resistance to antibiotics and bacterial ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by the Leibniz-HKI in Jena has discovered a new group of bioactive natural compounds in pathogenic bacteria of the genus Pandoraea: pandorabactins. They enable ...

Shahla Farzan: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Shahla Farzan. A couple billion years ago—about three billion to be a little more precise—the earth was a very different place. It ...

Iron enhances the progression of F. nucleatum-positive colorectal cancer, find researchers, paving the way for new prevention and treatment strategies High levels of certain intestinal bacteria, like ...

A research team at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson is developing a drug that works in combination with copper to kill bacteria, including those that cause MRSA, a type of staph ...