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.

Dead bacteria release an enzyme that breaks down their contents into nutrients for other bacteria, highlighting a novel ...

Asphyxiation from food intoxication occurs when severe food poisoning leads to airway obstruction or impaired respiratory ...

In some cases, certain wavelengths of light delivered in just the right way act as a death sentence—a feature that makes bacterial death by illumination a promising approach to treating infections.

The South African actress' death was ruled an accident. Her bacterial sepsis was caused after she was infected with a bacteria known as Capnocytophaga. While the infection is rare, there are ...

A research team led by Prof. Liu Xuanyong from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Dr. Jennifer McLellan, the Christ Hospital doctor who discharged Thompson prior to his death, was dropped from the suit, ...

"Furthermore, the incidence of death rapidly declined following the ... For now, a "rapid onset of bacterial meningitis" has been raised as a possible cause. Meningitis is an infection of the ...

The sister of a young man who tragically died after battling a bacterial infection and which left his lungs with more than 72 ...