Cancer cells are subjected to high mechanical pressure that leads to a rupture of the nuclear envelope when migrating through narrow tissue structures, as in the case of metastasis. DNA would normally ...

The new study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, revealed in high-resolution images and biochemical experiments ...

Researchers are calling for an urgent overhaul of diagnostic and treatment guidelines for infections in newborn babies, after ...

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 ...

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

Bacteria are constantly moving with the help of motility organs called flagella or pili to colonize new niches. Also, bacteria can exchange information, like "speaking to each other," and thus acquire ...

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

A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This ...

A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure—previously unknown in any organism—within Profftella, a symbiotic bacterium associated with a major global citrus pest. This ...

A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure — previously unknown in any organism — within ...