Bacteria are usually seen as boring. Tiny blobs. Always blamed for infections. Not exactly the stars of science. But here comes the surprise: bacteria are ...
A research team led by UAB researcher David Reverter has discovered the molecular mechanism that describes in detail the ...
High-resolution imaging shows how MraZ breaks and deforms to attach to repeated DNA sequences, activating the gene cluster ...
Over the past several years, research from University of California San Diego biologist Gürol Süel’s laboratory has uncovered a series of remarkable features exhibited by clusters of bacteria that ...
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 ...
Harvard immunologist Dennis Kasper and his colleagues have found that tiny changes in gut bacteria can flip the immune system from calm to inflamed, even when the microbes look harmless. Their work, ...
Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...
Researchers have discovered that biofilms, bacterial communities found throughout the living world, are far more advanced than previously believed. Scientists found that biofilm cells are organized in ...