A team of scientists has identified an enzyme called PurF as a new drug target for tuberculosis, offering a fresh line of ...

MIT researchers have identified how communities of ocean bacteria cooperate to decompose biodegradable plastics, a finding ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have identified the mechanism by which pathogenic Bordetella bacteria promote the colonization of mammalian airways.

Researchers have revealed how bacteria precisely control the genes that trigger cell division. The study shows that the MraZ ...

After her initial test run, she cultured a regular sample, as well as the shocked sample so she could compare them side by ...

Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell - from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division - scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into ...

To model bacterial life, Thornburg and his colleagues turned to one of its simplest examples: a bacterial cell with a ...

Direct farm-to-consumer sales of raw milk in Michigan are currently illegal. A bill in the state House would end that ...

Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of ...