New research suggests drought can stoke antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria — and that can have an impact on humans.

Gut bacteria aren’t just passive passengers—they can actively send proteins straight into our cells. Using microscopic injection systems, even harmless microbes can influence immune responses and ...

There’s an entire world of microbiomes living just under our noses. Although we can’t see them, bacteria, viruses, and other ...

Researchers from King’s College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of individual human cells infected with bacteria that model tuberculosis – and ...

The chief executive of the UK’s leading charity dedicated to fighting the condition on how the Kent incident is a reminder to ...

The outbreak, believed to have affected mostly people aged 18 to 21, has prompted the UK Health Security Agency to contact more than 30,000 students ...

A leading pharmacist is warning of the signs and symptoms of meningitis as a deadly outbreak has claimed two lives in Kent.

At Empa, an interdisciplinary research institute for materials science and technology within the ETH Domain, researchers are ...

Two people have died following a meningitis outbreak linked to the University of Kent. Here’s what the infection is, how it ...

The extent of the meningitis outbreak linked to Kent, where a grammar school pupil and a university student have died after ...

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve ...