Scientists have often thought of cells as small, bustling cities with parts that resemble factories, power grids and shipping ...

Epithelial cells form the body's frontline barriers, helping keep microbes, toxins and other harmful substances out. Yet ...

Researchers traced a surprising path from the gut to the brain that may help explain why some strokes hit harder than others.

Myxobacteria are renowned producers of structurally diverse bioactive natural products but are difficult to engineer. Here the authors create a robust heterologous expression chassis and develop ...

When scientists assess how dangerous a bacterium is, the first question often seems simple: Can it be stopped or killed? In ...

A new review maps how bacterial anti-phage defenses, from restriction enzymes to Thoeris and CBASS immune signaling, shape ...

A liquid brew of metabolic byproducts from a common gut bacterium could make one of the most widely used colorectal cancer chemotherapy drugs work better, at least in the laboratory. In a new in vitro ...

New research has shown how collaboration can even be beneficial in the microbial world. A study reported in Science has outlined how bacterial cells can work in unison to survive antibiotic exposure.

Researchers at LMU have discovered how a metabolite produced by gut bacteria can influence brain damage after stroke. Their ...

In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

A new machine learning-based platform called MALVINA measures bacterial invasion, intracellular accumulation and DNA damage at single-cell resolution, exposing infection dynamics that conventional ...

Shortening the span between examination and diagnosis "is critical time that can be used to treat the patient and possibly ...