Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the structure of Vibrio bacteria, which can cause life-threatening infections linked to antibiotic resistance. The King's College London team behind the ...

The assembly pathway behind refractile-body proteins may have finally been resolved, researchers from Science Tokyo report.

What the research is about Microorganisms in nature do not simply exist as isolated cells. In the gut microbiota-the ...

Now, in a new study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers have found that the bacterium Bacillus subtilis can ...

How do bacteria adapt when resources run low? ISTA researchers have found that, under starvation stress, E. coli can use ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 6, SDG 13, SDG 14, and SDG 15. The study of bacterial systems through the lens of physics is a rapidly evolving field that ...

Bacteria are traditionally imagined as single-cell organisms, spread out sparsely over surfaces or suspended in liquids, but in many environments the true bacterial mode of growth is in sticky ...

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the world's top public health threats. Often termed a silent pandemic, ...

Communication between cells in plants, animals and humans takes place via specialised connecting structures. An international team led by biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and ...

Swimming in the blood, sweat, cells and tears of every human are small proteins known as peptides. Many peptides can kill ...