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

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

When living cells grow, divide or respond to drugs, they give off tiny amounts of heat that offer information about what the ...

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, ...

An interdisciplinary team of Rice University researchers has uncovered previously unknown relationships between bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—and their bacterial hosts, offering a ...

Last week, we looked at a new study of the origin of complex cells, one that showed that our ancestors’ genomes were pieced ...

While scientists have studied how bacteria move toward food using a chemical radar known as chemotaxis, they have only ...

Enterobactin, a molecule produced by gut bacteria, may hold a surprising key to reducing intestinal inflammation. Not by ...

Bacteria are a type of microorganism, each made up of just one cell. Some bacteria are harmful and cause disease, and some are useful, like the one hundred trillion bacterial cells that inhabit our ...

The microbes that inhabit our bodies, called our microbiome, are a wonder. We host about as many microbes as we have cells in ...

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use microorganisms to generate electricity from organic waste, are emerging as a tool in ...