Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

In a world overrun with plastic garbage, causing untold environmental woes, University of Houston assistant professor of ...

Jack Strominger recounts his seminal work and contributions to understanding bacterial cell wall components, and thus how penicillin functions, and the implications of these discoveries for ...

By spinning bacteria in a controlled flow, scientists produce aligned cellulose sheets with tensile strength over 500 MPa.

Prenatal alcohol exposure altered the number of different T-cells and neutrophils, which are cells that fight infection, and elevated the number of cytokine proteins in the brain.

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July 4, 2025 — Scientists have discovered that the bacteria behind Lyme disease and anaplasmosis have a sneaky way of surviving inside ticks—they hijack the tick’s own cell functions to ...