More information: Christa Litschko et al, Transition transferases prime bacterial capsule polymerization, Nature Chemical ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria—such as how ...

The bacteria that are present in a person's gastrointestinal tract can reveal a lot about their health. A newly developed capsule could provide even more information, by gathering bacteria from ...

Capsule shedding: New bacterial pathway that promotes invasive disease Date: February 29, 2016 Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Summary: ...

The capsule contains living bacteria engineered to sense specific molecular signs of gut troubles and, when those molecules are present, the bacteria glow.

Polysaccharide cloaks called capsules adorn bacteria to help them evade immune system detection and adapt to changing environments. 1 Pathogens like Escherichia coli produce dozens of capsular types, ...

Third-party testing shows that Biotic⁺ delivers up to 50 times more bacteria, alive and active, than alternative formats (liquid probiotics, greens powder sand probiotics with a standard capsule ...

Dr. Irving Yall, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, was on a mission to solve the mystery behind phosphate-eating bacteria that he discovered in a Texas sewage plant. To ...

Ritual claims that Synbiotic+ can help balance your gut microbiome. It contains a blend of prebiotic, probiotic, and postbiotic bacteria.. Each capsule has 11 billion CFU and different bacterial ...

The abundance or lack of certain types of gut bacteria has been linked to everything from depression to heart disease to childhood asthma. Non-invasively determining which microbes make up a ...