Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

The risk of developing blood cancer increases with age. The finding that a molecule from gut bacteria plays a part points to ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

Researchers have discovered that a key bacterial protein, CsrA, gathers in a droplet-like structure inside cells to control ...

Israeli scientists have identified a critical mechanism bacteria use to activate disease-causing genes, offering new ...

Several different types of microbes can contaminate cell culture, including bacteria, fungi, viruses and Mycoplasma. Some of these, such as mold contamination, can be obvious, and therefore caught ...

Pathogenic bacteria are getting deadlier because they are increasingly gaining resistance to crucial antibiotics. Whole ...

Have you ever wondered if there is a way to heal bones without having to take bone from another part of the body? A new ...

“The ideal molecule is one that’s really different from everything else, making it detectable, and requires the fewest number of enzymes to produce it in the cell,” Voigt says. In this study, the ...

Being magnetotactic means that MMB are part of a select group of bacteria that orient their movement based on Earth's magnetic field using tiny "compass needles" in their cells. As if that weren't ...