How do bacteria - harmless ones living in our bodies, or those that cause disease - organize their activities? A new study, combining powerful genomic-scale microscopy with a technical innovation, ...

Researchers in Geneva have determined how some harmful bacteria introduce dangerous enzymes into host cells. They now want to use this discovery to ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study published in the journal Nature ...

Some bacteria abide against antibiotics not because they are good at hiding, but because their growth slows when nutrients ...

The need for new fast classification methods has become increasingly important. When a patient arrives at a medical center ...

Research on anode-less solid-state lithium metal batteries reveals how metal interlayers influence lithium plating stability ...

A team from UNIGE, the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, and Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf ...

This important study presents compelling observational data supporting a role for transcription and polysome accumulation in the separation of newly replicated bacterial chromosomes. The study is ...

Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — ...

The Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department announced Friday that an individual at a KPS school had ...

Light and electron microscopy have distinct limitations. Light microscopy makes it difficult to resolve smaller and smaller features, and electron microscopy resolves small structures, but samples ...