It came one year ago! Brad Spakowitz reported on a bacteria never before seen on Earth -- because it was discovered on the ...

The discovery of Cat1 reveals how CARF effectors use complex structures to inhibit viral replication, advancing our ...

How immune cells eliminate bacteria is a fundamental question in biology and medicine, with implications for infectious ...

The unusual molecular makeup of Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease, may hold clues for understanding and treating the tick-borne disease.

An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm ...

The microbes in the human gut can have a powerful effect on our health and well-being, as many studies have shown in recent years... | Microbiology ...

Researchers led by Professor Erik van Nimwegen at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, have discovered a new mechanism in ...

To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a research team has studied ancient timekeeping systems. They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC ...

Bacterial structural biology is a scientific discipline that concerns the structure of bacterial macromolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids. Such studies are used to understand the ...

Scientists are exploring bacteria's potential as cancer-fighting agents by genetically engineering them to target and destroy ...

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

These simulations showed that bacteria could still survive and generate electricity by using the surrounding surface to “breathe.” Lab experiments confirmed it: the bacteria grew on conductive ...