In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is ...

A study published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe ... covers the inner wall of the organ, known as the epithelium, making it effective in fighting the C. difficile bacteria.

The study reveals saccharin disrupts more than bacterial walls. It also messes with DNA inside bacterial cells. Treated bacteria grow long and thin, unable to divide. Their DNA starts replicating out ...

MOE Key Laboratory for Cellular Dynamics, Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Biomedicine of IHM, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, ...