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

Pathogens are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. With the goal of developing new therapeutic approaches to ...

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

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

Pathogens are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. With the goal of developing new therapeutic approaches to ...

A mathematical model provides new insights into the distribution of genetic information during bacterial cell division The precise segregation of DNA and the faithful inheritance of plasmids are ...

Bacteria aren't just mindless microbes. New research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals that single bacterial ...

Researchers have discovered how 'pirate phages' hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for ...