Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

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

Researchers created an oral cancer vaccine using a food poisoning bacterium that helps the immune system detect and attack colorectal tumors.

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 ...

Ancient bacteria trapped in Romanian cave ice for 5,000 years shows immunity to 10 modern antibiotics, revealing resistance ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

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

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

A potentially deadly type of bacterium previously found only in parts of Southern Asia, Africa or Australia has been detected for the first time in soil and water samples in the U.S., the Centers for ...

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