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

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

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 ...

The Yale labs of Craig Roy and Jun Liu have harnessed the power of cryo-EM to solve a 30-year mystery of how the Legionella ...

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 ...

When a wound turns septic, healing can quickly become a battle. Antibiotics have been the go-to defense for decades, but ...

Adding tiny, complex nanoparticles to common vinegar significantly boosted its ability to destroy harmful bacteria, according ...

The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to ...

Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is ...