We’re not talking in a metaphorical sense. This bacterium quite literally acts like a living wire. Candidatus Electrothrix yaqonensis is a filamentous, multicellular bacterium that channels electrons ...

Birmingham scientists have identified an essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to "displace" ...

Tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each year, and kills more than 1 million annually. Once established in the lungs, the bacteria's ...