Researchers have revealed how bacteria precisely control the genes that trigger cell division. The study shows that the MraZ ...

Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have uncovered how the bacteria that causes tuberculosis fuels ...

For years, biomolecular condensates were thought to be simple, liquid-like droplets with little internal organization. New ...

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. The special nanomachines are used ...

Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates ...

PHILADELPHIA - By combining two techniques, an international team of scientists led by researchers at The Wistar Institute has derived the "quasi-atomic" structure of a common bacteriophage, a type of ...

Scientists at MIT have discovered that a little-known protein called intelectin-2 plays a powerful double role in defending ...