Textbook images show peptidoglycan as straight and ordered. The biopolymer peptidoglycan that makes up bacterial cell walls was always assumed to be highly ordered. Textbook images like the one below ...

Researchers have described a large set of previously unrecognized enzymatic domains—named the Lipocone superfamily—and outlined their evolutionary pathway from bacterial defense molecules to key ...

Overflow metabolism refers to the widespread phenomenon of cells excreting metabolic by-products into their environment.

MIT chemists have discovered the structure of a protein that can pump toxic molecules out of bacterial cells. Proteins similar to this one, which is found in E. coli, are believed to help bacteria ...

Biologists from ETH Zurich have discovered speargun- like molecular injection systems in two types of bacteria and have described their structure for the first time.

Researchers have described a large set of previously unrecognised enzymatic domains – named the Lipocone superfamily – and outlined their evolutionary ...

Fluorescent nanomaterials smaller than 10 nm can disrupt drug-resistant bacteria through multiple mechanisms while enabling ...

Scientists have discovered a bacterium that’s about 5,000 times larger than any other giant bacteria -- large enough to see without a microscope.

A Cornell-led collaboration has devised a potentially low-cost method for producing antibodies for therapeutic treatments. They've bioengineered ...

Researchers have described a large set of previously unrecognised enzymatic domains – named the Lipocone superfamily – and outlined their evolutionary pathway from bacterial defence molecules to key ...