Could a gene regulatory network in gut microbes have evolved its elaborate and tightly regulated molecular machinery only to ...

Scientists at La Trobe University have discovered how a diarrhoea-causing strain of bacteria uses “molecular scissors” to cut ...

The proteasome is a microscopic barrel-shaped machine found in every cell of the human body. For decades, scientists only ...

Acquired resistance genes may allow bacteria to degrade or chemically modify antibiotics, rendering them ineffective. They ...

Mandimycin, which targets a different essential fungi cell resource than other antifungal drugs, should harm other cell types as collateral — but doesn’t.

When exposed to antibiotics, approximately one out of every 10 8 -10 9 bacteria develops resistance due to spontaneous ...

Secondary school students Misha Hegde and Mia Maurer are investigating whether special viruses, called bacteriophages, can be ...

Now, a team led by researchers at McMaster University in Ontario believe they’ve found a molecule that could lead to a whole ...

In seeking new antibiotic sources, researchers have turned to an unlikely source: a whiffy frog known as Odorrana andersonii.

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Ben Engel at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel were able to create high-resolution images of the respiratory chain directly inside cells at a resolution never achieved before. "Our data ...