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 ...

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 ...

The human microbiome plays a critical role in our health, influencing everything from disease development to treatment ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to pinpoint single bacteria in a colony and to predict which ones will be ...

They have identified a wastewater bacteria that is capable of breaking down PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic. Among ...

We discuss examples of bacterial effectors that are injected into the host cells and cause disruption of the maturation pathway, often by co-opting the host cell machinery, to generate a niche ...

An organism as a tenant in another -- in biology, this often works quite well. Researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish itself.