Image: Stalks increase the rate of nutrient uptake by efficiently increasing cell surface area. The finding has potential implications for both ecology and drug production Bloomington, Ind. — The ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

Bacterial ribosomes are central to protein synthesis, and their regulation is vital for adaptation to environmental stresses. Under conditions such as nutrient deprivation, cold shock or hypoxia, ...

An unexpected find has enabled important progress to be made in the battle against harmful bacteria. An international team of researchers, led by Professor Peter Fineran from the University of Otago, ...

The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...