Certain strains of bacteria have evolved a way of providing for neighboring cells after they die, giving up a feast of nutrients as a legacy that other bacteria can use to survive and grow.

Researchers use dead bacteria to slow, kill colorectal cancer cells Harvesting a treatment with the dead form of Clostridium sporogenes, bacteria commonly found in soil, a team from Nanyang ...

In one of the most tightly controlled environments on Earth, a rare bacterium has learned to disappear in plain sight. By slipping into an extreme dormant state that makes it effectively invisible to ...

In a breakthrough finding, scientists have identified a group of microbes that are found on dead bodies at specific points during decomposition, enabling the calculation of a time of death much more ...

Florida health officials confirmed that four people have died from Vibrio vulnificus, commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria, across the state so far in 2025. The deaths occurred in Bay, Broward, ...

New research conducted on a NASA-discovered bacterium shows the microbe is capable of entering an extreme dormant state, essentially "playing dead" to survive in some of the cleanest environments on ...