A Franco-British team of scientists has explored two human proteins recently identified as immune enzymes. Structural studies ...

New research has uncovered an extraordinary mechanism of cell division in Corynebacterium matruchotii, one of the most common bacteria living in dental plaque. The filamentous bacterium doesn't just ...

Key PointsBacteria actively sense their environment and use chemical cues to navigate their world through a process called chemotaxis.Chemotaxis aids ...

Hygiene in everyday items that touch the body—such as clothing, masks, and toothbrushes—is critically important. The ...

Are all bacterial cells in a group alike? It doesn't seem so. A population of bacterial cells may be heteroresistant, which is to say that some may be able to evade the effects of antibiotics, while ...

Researchers identify why graphene oxide selectively destroys bacteria while remaining safe for human cells, with applications from toothbrushes to sportswear.

For several years, researchers have been successfully using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells to target specific antigens found on blood cells as a cure for patients with leukemia and lymphoma.

Some bacteria do not defeat antibiotics by evolving resistance right away—they outlast treatment by slipping into ...

A new study challenges a decades-old explanation for how bacteria change direction, revealing that the process may be driven ...