Researchers at the National University of Singapore have reported crossing the blood–brain barrier with help from a modified Lactobacillus plantarum. By delivering an appetite-regulating hormone ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

A study reveals AI's role in identifying antimicrobial compounds for tuberculosis, enhancing drug development through ...

Tuberculosis is a serious global health threat that infected more than 10 million people in 2022. Spread through the air and into the lungs, the pathogen that causes "TB" can lead to chronic cough, ...

Tuberculosis is a serious global health threat that infected more than 10 million people in 2022. Spread through the air and ...

Researchers in Geneva have determined how some harmful bacteria introduce dangerous enzymes into host cells. They now want to use this discovery to ...

Parasitic worms are difficult to kill with current therapies, but their commensal bacteria might be their Achilles’ heel.

Real-time imaging shows that bacterial resilience to antibiotics is not caused by a few ‘persisters’, but is a ...

This manuscript describes an important finding of the transcriptional control of a chimeric gene transfer agents (GTA) cluster in Bartonella by a processive anti-termination factor (BrrG). The ...

Evolution has been fine-tuning life at the molecular level for billions of years. Proteins, the fundamental building blocks ...

A team from UNIGE, the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, and Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf ...