Even highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria become more vulnerable when their cell wall transport system is disrupted, according to a new study from Umeå University. The discovery reveals a previously ...

An estimated 38 trillion bacteria live in the human body—and only a small fraction are harmful to our health. However, the ...

For half a century, one of the most fundamental questions about the third domain of life has remained stubbornly unresolved: ...

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and collaborators have discovered a key process in how the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria attaches to the cell wall, advancing the understanding ...

Engineered cell membranes help antibiotic carrying nanoparticles target drug resistant Gram negative bacteria, boosting ampicillin activity at far lower concentrations.

Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden published a study “Breaking barriers: pCF10 type 4 secretion system relies on a self-regulating muramidase to modulate the cell wall” in mBIO that describes ...

Researchers have discovered how acids on the surface of bacteria give these microscopic organisms their characteristic "rod" shape-by keeping an enzyme at bay that would otherwise turn the cylindrical ...

Now, in a new study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers have found that the bacterium Bacillus subtilis can ...