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ITHACA, N.Y. -- A decade after microbiologists began to suspect that many groups of bacteria can communicate -- by releasing and detecting chemical pheromones to gauge their population density -- the ...

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new ...

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Next-generation technology has helped solve a 30-year mystery of how Legionnaires' disease—a severe form of pneumonia—works, ...

A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure—previously unknown in any organism—within ...

Zinc sits at the heart of many bacterial enzymes, so one of our immune system's simplest defenses is to keep zinc out of ...