Research into cell cycle regulation and size control in microorganisms has yielded a nuanced understanding of how these entities maintain homeostasis and synchronise growth with division. In both ...

Two recent studies from the University of California, Riverside, published in the same issue of Gut Microbes highlight the ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

Bacteria can slip into the brain by commandeering cells in the brain’s protective layers, a new study finds. The results hint at how a deadly infection called bacterial meningitis takes hold. In mice ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

In a first-of-its-kind lab study, scientists prove that probiotic bacteria stimulate immediate and measurable changes in brain cell function, hinting at a new direct communication between your gut and ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

MSK radiation oncologist Dr. Nadeem Riaz and colleagues discovered that bacteria inside tumors can undermine the effects of immunotherapy. In cancer research, failure can lead to an important ...

Engineers have developed a new way to produce tagatose, a low-calorie sugar, using engineered bacteria and cheap glucose ...

Postbiotics are beneficial compounds produced when gut bacteria, including probiotics, break down prebiotics. In other words, ...