A Chandigarh research team has identified a new threat. A bacterium called Bordetella holmesii is now causing more whooping cough-like illn...

A sample of the bacteria may now be sent to space as part of the Gaganyaan mission to study its behaviour in microgravity. With India plann...

A New Mexican individual lost his life from the bubonic plague, a disease that affects humans and mammals, caused by a dangerous bacterium.

The UK has witnessed an unprecedented surge of syphilis cases, which are at a 75-year peak. Another matter of concern is that a new strain ...

The scientists, including those from the University of Sheffield in the UK, said overuse of antibiotics, high animal numbers, and low genet...

So much so that a group of scientists avers that the most spoken language in the world is terpene —which it is not a tongue at all but a so...

Researchers said the work could be used to create new functions for single-celled organisms that play important roles in drug discovery and...

Oxidative stress is considered to be a contributing factor in several skin diseases.

The TB bacterium is cunning and is able to survive according to the researchers due to its ability to sense and adapt to its host's environ...

An enzyme found in a nicotine-eating bacterium can be recreated in lab settings and might be used as a drug candidate to help people quit s...

Researchers have discovered that ethoxzolamide actually turns off the tuberculosis' ability to invade the immune system.

Tuberculosis continues to be a global pandemic, second only to AIDS as the greatest single-agent killer in the world.

Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a new molecule that may treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and even HIV in...

An enzyme takes the hydrogen back to protons and electrons, then combines them with carbon dioxide to replicate - making more cells.

Replacing glucose with rice powder in the oral rehydration therapy for cholera can reduce toxicity by almost 75 per cent, a new study has f...

The researchers found proof that Streptococcus pneumoniae, the leading cause of community-acquired pneumonia, actually physically damages t...

BT, or soil bacteria could help battle roundworm infection worldwide, says a study.