Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully applied cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to ...

Researchers have revealed how polymyxins, crucial last-resort antibiotics, break down bacterial armor by forcing cells to ...

Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a ...

Physicians have relied on a class of antibiotics called polymyxins to fight potentially life-threatening Gram-negative ...

The new study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, revealed in high-resolution images and biochemical experiments ...

Earth’s most diverse biological entities are the viruses that infect bacteria, called bacteriophages (phages). They are rich ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered ...

A team led by UCL (University College London) and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how ...

New research into antimicrobial peptides, small chains of amino acids able to damage bacterial cells, shows why some peptides are more effective at doing that and also why some cells are more ...

The antibiotic polymyxin can pierce the armor of active bacteria, but are ineffective when armor production is shut off in dormant bacteria.

The complex structure of Gram-negative bacteria, protects them from various antibiotic treatments. These bacteria create ...

Calcium, a mineral involved in wound healing, can strengthen the attachment between microbe and skin and make infections hard to shake.