After nearly 40 years of research on how Listeria bacteria manipulate our cells and battle our immune system to cause listeriosis, Daniel Portnoy and his colleagues have discovered a way to turn the ...

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 ...

Explore how bacteria against plastic can help combat pollution by breaking down harmful plastic waste effectively.

To measure how bacterial communities shift between health and disease, the team developed a new metric called the Ecological ...

The Listeria lifecycle after it infects a mammalian host. Counterclockwise from upper left, the bacteria are quickly ingested by an immune system cell called a macrophage, where they end up in an ...

Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones and track how some illnesses progress by measuring how gut bacteria interact with one another. According to a study ...

Coimbatore: At least 36,564 students are expected to appear for Class XII board exams, which would be conducted from March 2 ...

Researchers found three bacteriophages disable MurJ, a key cell wall transporter, by locking it outward-facing. This blocks ...

A widespread bacteria called "soap scum" grows in Yellowstone National Park's thermal pools that on the surface doesn't seem ...

Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that several unrelated viruses disable a key bacterial ...