New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

Gut bacteria are known to be a key factor in many health-related concerns. However, the number and variety of them is vast, ...

Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack ...

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model ...

Multiple ParA/MinD ATPases coordinate the positioning of disparate cargos in a bacterial cell. Nature Communications , 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39019-x Cite This Page : ...

Bacteria talk to each other and our cells in the same way, via molecules. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 11 / 121106114241.htm ...

Polard and his team began their investigations by engineering a strain of S. pneumoniae that emits fluorescent signals when a cell becomes competent, allowing the researchers to track how the strategy ...

But unlike us, these bacteria do not spend a long time wooing the cell in the hope that it will welcome them in. Instead, ...

This organism, named Candidatus Uabimicrobium helgolandensis, is a single-celled organism that can do things that bacteria were thought to not be able to do, including "eating" other cells like a ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don’t stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the ...

Bacteria cells in colonies that had previously swarmed were more prone to swarm again than those that hadn't, and their offspring followed suit for at least four generations—about two hours. On ...