Scientists have uncovered an elegant biophysical trick that tuberculosis-causing bacteria use to survive inside human cells, ...

Researchers at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB) have found a new way to organize molecules ...

Biochemists at Caltech have identified how viruses have converged on a method for killing bacteria. The researchers have homed in on an underexplored small transporter called MurJ that is a vital part ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t ...

A research team led by UAB researcher David Reverter has discovered the molecular mechanism that describes in detail the ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

Complex cells are thought to be the result of a union between two ancient microorganisms, but scientists have long been ...

Researchers have found that specific gut cells, BEST4/CA7+ cells, regulate electrolyte and water balance in response to bacterial toxins that cause diarrhea. Their findings show that these cells ...

Bacteria have been around for billions of years. Could they have come up with complex behaviors that we just don’t understand yet? Could they have their own language? Their own culture? Their own ...