Some early-onset colorectal cancers may be caused by exposure to a bacterial toxin within the first 10 years of life, according to a study published April 23 in Nature. An international research team, ...

Bacterial secondary metabolites represent a vast arsenal of bioactive compounds with the potential to combat antimicrobial ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a live-imaging system, Phollow, that tracks individual ...

Engineers and biologists at Dartmouth College have found that, just like word order affects meaning in a sentence, the ...

Innate lymphoid cells (ILC) are instrumental to immediate, local response to pathogens. Here the authors use parabiosis and multiplex 3D imaging to identify a mouse type 3 ILC population that ...

The research reveals that certain types of nasal bacteria can affect the levels of key proteins the virus needs to enter human cells, offering new insight into why some people are more vulnerable ...

A study published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe by Brazilian and American researchers suggests that a diet rich in soluble fiber can protect the intestine against pathogenic bacteria.

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Industrial Technology Development Institute developed a nanotechnology that can detect bacteria, viruses, and even cancer cells. Featured by Martin ...

The molecular world of bitter compounds has so far only been partially explored. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for ...

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 ...

The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States ...

Spindle tethering factors such as Drosophila Mud (NuMA in mammals) are recruited to the cell cortex and capture astral microtubules, pulling the spindle in the correct orientation. However, how ...