A bacterially produced molecule circulates in the bloodstream and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by hijacking ...

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

An international research team led by the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) has discovered a new strategy used by the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa to adapt to its host. In the ...

There are roughly a trillion species of microorganisms on Earth—the vast majority of which are bacteria. ...

“After about a decade of looking at the bacterial cell wall with AFM, I managed to image individual molecular sugar chains,” Turner stated on Twitter. Lead author Robert Turner achieved a breakthrough ...

Human cells harness power of detergents to wipe out bacteria Date: July 15, 2021 Source: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summary: Researchers have discovered that a molecule found within many of ...

The cell wall of bacteria functions kind of like an exoskeleton, giving them shape and structure and protecting them from outside incursion. Since this is vital for the organism’s survival, ...

Fundamental unit of cell size in bacteria discovered Date: April 13, 2017 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: By applying mathematical models to a large number of experiments in ...

Bacteria are evolving resistance to virtually all of our frontline drugs. They build up mutations in their DNA that allow them to pump drugs from their cells, or build enzymes that destroy them.

When faced with bacterial invaders, some human cells dispense a surprising substance: soap. These cells, which aren’t part of the immune system, unleash a detergent-like protein that dissolves ...

Bacterial cells in the human body outnumber human cells 10 to one. Moreover, this mixed community of microbial cells and the genes they contain, collectively known as the microbiome, ...