For decades, biology textbooks and popular science writing repeated a striking claim: bacterial cells in the human body ...

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across ...

Bacteria are a type of microorganism, each made up of just one cell. Some bacteria are harmful and cause disease, and some ...

Bacteria have no neurons or memories in the human sense. Yet in a new study, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and ...

Researchers at the University of Greifswald have discovered a new mechanism by which bacteria such as Bacillus subtilis can ...

Experiments and modeling reveal the unexpected structure that can be seen in bacteria grown in mucus samples and biofilms. Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial ...

Enterobactin, a molecule produced by gut bacteria, may hold a surprising key to reducing intestinal inflammation. Not by ...