Short peptides can self-assemble into net-like structures that kill bacteria. Now, researchers have discovered how to control ...

A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

A mathematical model provides new insights into the distribution of genetic information during bacterial cell division The precise segregation of DNA and the faithful inheritance of plasmids are ...

The Yale labs of Craig Roy and Jun Liu have harnessed the power of cryo-EM to solve a 30-year mystery of how the Legionella bacteria works. The findings represent the next steps in the search for new ...

Researchers are calling for an urgent overhaul of diagnostic and treatment guidelines for infections in newborn babies, after ...

A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure—previously unknown in any organism—within Profftella, a symbiotic bacterium associated with a major global citrus pest. This ...

New CU Boulder research shows that bacteria harness physical laws to operate at the edge of chaos and use calcium to independently diversify and find a place to settle down Let’s talk about the ...

To create Celium, Polybion feeds the bacteria a steady diet of agro-industrial fruit waste. It converts the sugar contents ...

When a wound turns septic, healing can quickly become a battle. Antibiotics have been the go-to defense for decades, but ...