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 ...

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

Experiments show that the bacterial component of fine particulate matter has a highly potent inflammatory effect.

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

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered ...

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

Calcium, a mineral involved in wound healing, can strengthen the attachment between microbe and skin and make infections hard to shake.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered that bacteria can drive stem cell regeneration to repair the ...

#Ticks #bacteria: a few of the ultra-tiny organisms our scientists are studying to find ways to advance treatments for illnesses, including tick-born diseases, #cholera and flesh-eating bacteria ...

Department of Medicinal Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, ...

This manuscript describes an AI-automated microscopy-based approach to characterize both bacterial and host cell responses associated with Shigella infection of epithelial cells. The methodology is ...