A study published in Nature of the LolCDE complex, as detailed through various experimental approaches and analyses, provides a comprehensive understanding of its structure, function, dynamics, and ...

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

Individual bacterial cells don't have much power on their own, but like other organisms, there is strength in numbers for microbes. Communities of bacterial cells are called biofilms, and these slimy, ...

University of Otago scientists are harnessing the power of peptides—the body's own tiny protein molecules—for a spray to help ...

New research reveals that bacteria inside tumors suppress the immune response, driving immunotherapy resistance in head and ...

The lower airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) have unique biochemical features that correlate with the complex communities of lung bacteria typical of this disease, according to a ...

Bacterial biofilms contain a level of structural organisation that we thought was unique to plants and animals. Biofilms, slimy clumps of microorganisms like bacteria and fungi, were long thought to ...

ARLINGTON, Va.– According to a new report, complex cells like those in the human body probably resulted from the fusion of genomes from an ancient bacterium and a simpler microbe, Archaea, best known ...