Researchers reconstructed antimicrobial peptides from mammal ancestors dating back about 160 million years and found that some ancient versions could strongly inhibit or kill disease-causing ...

Researchers describe the full molecular structure of the phage DEV. DEV infects and lyses Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, an opportunistic pathogen in cystic fibrosis and other diseases. DEV is part ...

Bacterial cells are far simpler than animal cells - bacterial cells don't even have membrane-bound organelles like mitochondria or a nucleus. But a new study has suggested that bacterial cells are ...

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing modern medicine. A new class of programmable antibiotics ...

When it comes to invading healthy cells, Legionella bacteria rely on blending in rather than breaking in. New research from ...

As multidrug antibiotic resistance emerges as a potent public health challenge, medical science has renewed attention on the ...

Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the host and its resident. It may seem unusual, but complex cells are thought ...

Rock weathering, the breakdown and dissolving of rocks and minerals caused by their exposure to water, air and biological ...

Researchers at MIT have found a way to grow bacteria to function as signal-senders that might allow plants to "sense and ...

In electrical circuits, transistors switch or amplify electric signals, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

Two Alfred University students studying with Assistant Professor of Biology Cat Clarke presented research conducted under Clarke’s guidance at the recent American Society of Plant Biologists ...