Bacterial fragments called peptidoglycans may influence daily sleep patterns and also affect the brain health cycle strongly.

Bacteria are constantly moving with the help of motility organs called flagella or pili to colonize new niches. Also, ...

MIT chemists have discovered the structure of a protein that can pump toxic molecules out of bacterial cells. Proteins similar to this one, which is found in E. coli, are believed to help bacteria ...

Short peptides can self-assemble into net-like structures that kill bacteria. Now, researchers have discovered how to control ...

Next-generation technology has helped solve a 30-year mystery of how Legionnaires' disease—a severe form of pneumonia—works, ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

PHILADELPHIA - By combining two techniques, an international team of scientists led by researchers at The Wistar Institute has derived the "quasi-atomic" structure of a common bacteriophage, a type of ...