Up to 5% of people who have surgery can develop an infection — which can prolong healing and lead to dangerous complications, studies have shown. Additionally, chronic wounds affect around 6.5 million ...

Bacteria wouldn't be so bad if we could tell them what to do. "Stop spreading! Stop sticking together! Stop fending off our antibiotics!" A new method is starting to allow scientists to do just that, ...

Light is a fundamental signal affecting every form of life. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks in organisms from unicellular bacteria to humans. Certain bacteria perform ...