Bacteria are also able to communicate with each other through chemical signals, a behavior known as quorum signaling (QS). These chemical signals spread through a biofilm that colonies of bacteria ...

Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928 changed the world: Once-common bacterial infections, sometimes ...

Swapping a single amino acid in a simple bacterial protein changes its structure and function, revealing the effects of complex gene evolution, finds a new study published in the journal eLife. The ...

Phospholipids are water insoluble "building blocks" that define the membrane barrier surrounding cells and provide the structural scaffold and environment where membrane proteins reside. During the ...

Thin strands of Thiomargarita magnifica bacteria cells next to a U.S. dime. The species was discovered among the mangroves of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. (Tomas Tyml / Lawrence Berkeley National ...

Tuberculosis is the world's leading infectious cause of death, killing more than one million people each year. When the antibiotic bedaquiline was introduced in 2012, it was the first new tuberculosis ...

Microbes are known for their remarkable survival abilities. And now, scientists have discovered another remarkable trait: ...