MIT and Freie Universität Berlin researchers drew inspiration from mussels' gluey plaque and human mucus to create a new ...

Biofilms can grow on heart valves, in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis, in the intestines, and on teeth, as well as on medical devices and implants, including artificial joints, stents, and ...

Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, ...

In additional experiments, the same bacterial fragment blocked the aggregation of IAPP (a protein involved in type 2 diabetes ...

A bacteria best known for causing stomach ulcers could lead to a new strategy in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease ...

A 146,000-year-old skull known as the 'dragon man', thought to be the sole representative of an ancient human species, ...

Undergraduate summer research experiences can be life changing. A seven-to-ten-week experience frequently blossoms into something larger — a senior thesis, a pathway to graduate studies, or even a ...

We've already seen antibacterial surfaces that kill microbes on contact, but scientists in the UK have recently gone a ...

A major cause of hospital-acquired infections, the super bacteria Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), not ...