In a recent study, scientists from the department Living Matter Physics at MPI-DS developed a model describing communication pathways in bacterial populations. Bacteria show an overall organizational ...

An AI model trained on large amounts of genetic data can predict whether bacteria will become antibiotic-resistant. The new study shows that antibiotic resistance is more easily transmitted between ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their environment, for example, antibiotic-resistant bacteria stubbornly survive the usual ...

A model organism used in laboratories for the past 100 years has evolved so extensively that it may no longer be fit for purpose, according to a new study “Laboratory strains of Escherichia coli K-12: ...

The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of ...

Research published in PLOS Pathogens highlights a cell wall-driven trigger of joint inflammation, pointing to new ways to target Lyme arthritis ...