Recent studies seem to suggest that bacterial pathogens stimulate RIPK1- and RIPK3-dependent cell death. For example, Yersinia pestis, the etiological agent for pandemic Black Death in medieval ...

Foster said they were surprised to see just how different the levels of aggression were between strains—and how the different strains responded to attack. “We were particularly amazed by the ability ...

How bacteria attack their host cells with sticky lollipops Date: November 12, 2012 Source: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Summary: Yersinia enterocolitica, a pathogenic bacterium ...

That is why it is urgently necessary to find new points of attack in pathogenic bacteria and to develop new antibiotics which exploit these weak spots. New mechanism of action destroys bacteria.

Australian scientists have discovered a previously unknown protective mechanism bacteria use to kill immune cells, opening up potential research pathways that could help doctors fight antibiotic ...

Medicalizing viruses that attack bacteria The enemy of our enemy—viruses that target pathogenic bacteria—is our friend. Diana Gitig – Dec 3, 2015 2:00 pm | 40 ...

The spherical black objects are pathogenic bacteria, ... Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have uncovered a surprising way in which harmful bacteria prepare to attack their hosts.

Microbe-eating-microbes are found in "almost every ecosystem on Earth," says a defense department scientist who hopes bacteria of this type might one day be deployed to fight human infections.

Similar mechanisms suspected in other bacteria. Christian Twittenhoff compared the gene of the CnfY toxin with toxin genes of other pathogens using bioinformatic methods.

But red blood cells overwhelmed by an attack of mycobacteria may help spread them throughout the body. ... Pathogenic bacteria causing lung diseases hitchhike on red blood cells. Hiroshima University.

“Over the last 200 years or so, certain individual bacteria, which we call clones, managed to absorb new genes and become more capable of infecting humans. These clones then expanded and spread ...

Bacteria have different strategies for protecting themselves. Some bacterial pathogens surround themselves with a shell made of many sugar chains that lie close together, also known as capsular ...