New research from Indiana University has uncovered a previously unknown vulnerability in how bacteria build the whip-like ...

Even highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria become more vulnerable when their cell wall transport system is disrupted, ...

For decades, biology textbooks and popular science writing repeated a striking claim: bacterial cells in the human body outnumber human cells by a ratio of ten to one. That figure, it turns out, was ...

Bacteria can survive antibiotics in several ways, including by pumping the drugs out of their cells before they can take ...

The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers turned to a familiar laboratory system involving E. coli, the rod-shaped bacterium found in the human gut, and T7 phage, which infects E. coli. They focused on phosphorylation, a rapid ...

New research has shown how collaboration can even be beneficial in the microbial world. A study reported in Science has outlined how bacterial cells can work in unison to survive antibiotic exposure.

Researchers have revealed how bacteria precisely control the genes that trigger cell division. The study shows that the MraZ protein, which normally forms a donut-shaped structure, must bend and ...

MIT researchers have created bacterial “transistors” that can be wired together into living circuits capable of performing ...

It is a fact that reliably startles anyone who hears it for the first time: the human body is home to at least as many ...