Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells ...

As well as degrading proteins, the proteosome surprisingly also functions in human defence against bacterial infection. By ...

Working in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, scientists at the University of ...

Audrey Proenca. Single-cell organisms like bacteria were considered "immortal" for a long time. Because bacteria divide into two equal parts and bacterial strains can continue on indefinitely ...

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 ...

Planctomycetes challenge our concept of the bacterial cell and of a prokaryote as a cell structure type, as well as our ideas about origins of the eukaryote nucleus. Planctomycetes Are Important ...

Bacteria are among the smallest living things. A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria.

Bacteria are among the smallest living things. A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria.

Eventually, a phage makes so many copies of itself that it will burst the bacterial cell it has infected. Scientists have known for a while that ... The handshakes involve a large, central protein ...

Scientists have developed a new drug that could help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a major threat to public health.

The new version of vancomycin targets, bonds to and renders inactive two different parts of a molecule ... By binding molecules that bacteria need to build a protective cell wall, the drug may ...