Like so many organisms on the planet, when cells experience mosh-pit-level crowding, they may just become stressed. Yet unlike most other life forms, cells subject to physical stress from crowding by ...

Bacteria that cause diseases, so-called pathogens, develop various strategies to exploit human cells as hosts to their own advantage. Researchers have now uncovered the attack strategies employed by ...

The protein GBP1 is a vital component of our body's natural defense against pathogens. This substance fights against bacteria ...

Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate the approach of cold weather and prepare for it.

As strains of pathogens resistant to frontline antibiotics become more common worldwide, clinicians are more often turning to combination treatments that degrade this resistance as a first treatment ...

Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed light on some of the ...

Researchers at the University of Liverpool and collaborators have arrived at a new understanding of bacterial photosynthesis.

Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the ...