Amyloids are perhaps best known as a key driver of Alzheimer's disease. The amorphous proteins, found throughout the human body, stick to nerve cells like plaque, choking off their function and ...

What they bring back may help us get to the bottom of public health problems on Earth, like antibiotic resistance and infectious disease spread.

To further probe biofilm dynamics, the team tested engineered surfaces with nanoscale ridges — features thousands of times ...

A desert region in northern Mexico sparked the imagination of Prof. Joel Stavans, a physicist who studies the physics of ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

The viruses that kill bacteria may be our best bet against antibiotic resistance — if we can understand how they win.

Bacteria sent up includes E. coli — which is responsible for hundreds of thousands of cases of stomach illnesses each year in ...