Sequencing bacterial genomes allows scientists to study bacterial diversity, immunity, and the human microbiome, but it ...

A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide ...

Combining experiments in microfluidic devices and computer simulation, this study provides a valuable analysis of the relevant parameters that determine the motility of (multicellular) magnetotactic ...

The expression of insect PGRPs is often upregulated by exposure to bacteria. Insect PGRPs are ... Short insect PGRPs (for example, PGRP-SA) are pattern recognition receptors that recognize lysine ...

Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology—in health and disease. A new study from EMBL Heidelberg ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the ...

Weighing in at nearly 2 kilos, our gut bacteria seem to play an even bigger role than was previously thought. These bacteria ...

Tests on the "mysterious balls" which led to the closure of several Australian beaches last week have revealed they were made up partially of faecal bacteria. Nine beaches in Sydney were closed by ...

This discovery could also have implications in studies of polymer-secreting conglomerations of bacteria known as biofilms—the slippery goo on river rocks, for example—and in industrial ...