Bacteria are usually seen as boring. Tiny blobs. Always blamed for infections. Not exactly the stars of science. But here comes the surprise: bacteria are ...

Common gut bacteria use protein delivery systems to interact directly with human cells, reshaping how scientists view the ...

A Dartmouth study finds that molecular hitchhikers living within bacteria can make their hosts extra resistant to medical ...

In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...