Bacteria can detect and respond to local cell-surface perturbations, but how they sense changes in overall cell shape and ...

Antibiotic resistance is considered one of the most urgent health threats of our time. Common bacteria such as E. coli and ...

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to ...

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Imperial College ...

Microbes associated with tumors produce a molecule that can control cancer progression and boost the effectiveness of ...

A study by researchers from Wuhan University, York University (UK) and Peking University has uncovered how Escherichia coli ...

Overflow metabolism refers to the widespread phenomenon of cells excreting metabolic by-products into their environment.

Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack cellular processes in ticks to ensure their survival and spread to new hosts, ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses. For the bacterial species that inhabit your gut, there’s a frenzy of viruses ...