Using an innovative combination of biochemical experiments and ultra-high-resolution microscopy, a research team at Kiel ...

Bacterial pathogens have evolved diverse strategies to manipulate host cells to establish infection. At a molecular level, this is often mediated by virulence factors that are secreted into host cells ...

One of the most intricate structures found in bacterial cells are magnetosomes of magnetotactic bacteria. These membrane-bound organelles contain tens-of-nanometre-sized crystals of a magnetic iron ...

A research team at the University of Greifswald's Research Training Group RTG-PRO "Proteases in pathogen and host: importance ...

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have – in collaboration with colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich – analysed the complex biochemical processes by ...

Bacteria can pass proteins between themselves, which induces a dormant state that helps a small group of them survive ...

Biologists have uncovered a new mode of communication inside cells that helps bacterial pathogens learn how to evade drugs. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, describe how ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered that bacteria can drive stem cell regeneration to repair the intestinal lining after injury—uncovering an unexpected way in which the gut ...

A new study from Caltech demonstrates that soil bacteria can adapt under stress, particularly when a key nutrient, phosphorus ...

Over the past two decades, high‑throughput sequencing has dramatically expanded our understanding of the gut microbiome's composition.

University of Queensland researchers have found that an experimental histone deacetylase 6 inhibitor can help immune cells to ...

For decades, textbooks and public-health campaigns repeated a striking claim: bacterial cells in the human body outnumber human cells by a factor of ten to one. That figure, repeated so often it ...