Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — ...

Ernest Pharmaceuticals team of scientists has made “exciting,” patient-friendly advances in developing a non-toxic bacterial ...

Researchers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research have ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a crucial organelle present in all eukaryotic cells, including human cells. The ER plays a ...

Researchers identified that the dominant B cell epitope of Lachnospiraceae flagellins and the utilization of the flagellin ...

A microbe found in the lower part of the gut that is associated with good health has been comprehensively analysed and found to have a focused diet breaking down sugars locked away in mucus, according ...

Using the improved technique, McCurry found that certain glucocorticoids are more abundant in human bile than others. The ...

Bacterial cells differ fundamentally in their structure ... The MEP pathway is an essential part of the energy metabolism of several bacteria, including the hospital germ Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

This makes it a critical part of prokaryotic cell function ... Prokaryotic cells have DNA, typically a single, circular molecule that contains all the genetic information necessary for the cell's ...

In short, while bacteria may not have “sex lives” in the way humans do, their frequent DNA exchanges play a crucial role in ...