Scientists have discovered a bacterium in Romanian cave ice that resists antibiotics used to treat infections including tuberculosis, colitis, and UTIs.

"It has been a paradox that we repeatedly find the same bacterium in connection with colorectal cancer, while at the same time it is a completely normal part of the gut in healthy people," says ...

In Romania’s Apuseni mountain range, one cave maintains a body of perennial ice, about the size of an apartament building.

For the first time, researchers measured the magnetic pull inside a single bacterium, turning a biological mystery into hard ...

The newly discovered microorganism appears to show resistance to a dozen modern antibiotics, but it also inhibits the growth of other bacteria ...

Purdue Biologist Stanton B. Gelvin explained how Agrobacterium moves DNA into wounded plant cells, and why cracking that “black box” matters for agriculture during a seminar Wednesday afternoon at the ...

Some bacterial species possess an astonishing ability: They use Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves. To better understand this mechanism, the team led by Argovia-Professor Martino Poggio from ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the Western world and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths ...

In A Nutshell Scientists extracted bacteria from Romanian cave ice dated to 5,335 years old that resists 10 modern ...

Deep inside a Romanian ice cave, locked away in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice, scientists have uncovered a bacterium with a startling secret: it’s resistant to many modern antibiotics. Despite ...