Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

Space-based experiments show that microgravity-induced mutations in bacteriophages may improve their ability to target ...

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

Two recent studies from the University of California, Riverside, published in the same issue of Gut Microbes highlight the ...

Bacterial glycosylation represents a sophisticated mechanism by which pathogens modify both host and bacterial proteins, thereby subverting immune responses and modulating cellular processes. Central ...

Are all bacterial cells in a group alike? It doesn't seem so. A population of bacterial cells may be heteroresistant, which is to say that some may be able to evade the effects of antibiotics, while ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at the University of Basel created a new test that tracks individual bacteria ...

In a first-of-its-kind lab study, scientists prove that probiotic bacteria stimulate immediate and measurable changes in brain cell function, hinting at a new direct communication between your gut and ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to live.