Let’s consider an example of a bacterial transformation protocol using chemically competent cells and heat shock. A single colony of Escherichia coli is transferred from an agar plate to a rich liquid ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

For the first time, a scientific study has succeeded in using live microbes to produce medicine — by digesting and fermenting ...

An international research team led by the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) has discovered a new strategy used by ...

Polard and his team began their investigations by engineering a strain of S. pneumoniae that emits fluorescent signals when a cell becomes competent, allowing the researchers to track how the strategy ...

Since many antibiotics target the bacterial cell wall, these findings may contribute to the development of new therapeutic strategies against bacterial infections. Caulobacter crescentus is a crescent ...

But this nesting-doll-like setup has another, more harmful effect: the bacteria secrete a deadly molecular syringe, 100 nanometers long, that latches onto the insect’s cells.