An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in two Kansas counties has sickened dozens since January 2024.

New research has found a way to power spacecraft with lasers generated using solar energy alone.

Dangerous strains of E. coli bacteria can infiltrate the food supply through many different routes, experts explain.

Bacteria that are mirror images of existing ones could evade our immune systems, causing serious illness.

Scientists investigating the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica discovered an ecosystem teeming with strange microbial communities.

Two men from Rochester, New York died from a type of pneumonia after being exposed to a harmful fungus living in bat poop used to grow cannabis.

A three-part complex based on the molecules that give "Conan the Bacterium" its radiation resistance may protect humans against damage from ionizing radiation.

"Both understood phages as medicinal agents, which the rest of the medical field viewed as nonsensical."

Common colds and the flu differ in many ways, including their causes, some of their symptoms and their treatments.

A bacterial infection that rarely occurs in the United States hit a woman in Maryland after she cleaned her home aquarium.