A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...
Type VI secretion systems (T6SS) are sophisticated nanomachines that bacteria employ to inject effector proteins directly into neighbouring cells. These systems are structurally reminiscent of ...
A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...
The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...
Inflammatory gut bacteria that carry proteins structurally similar to myelin may trigger the development and progression of ...
The gut microbiome has been shown to influence tumor growth and contribute to therapeutic resistance. Scientists have ...
Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life. “I was quite shocked, truly,” said ...
Studies published in Nature Cancer reveal how bacterial presence in head and neck cancers affects treatment response, ...