In the crowded interior of a bacterial cell, location can be everything. A new study of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa reveals that a short molecular tether anchoring the cell’s m ...

Swimming in the blood, sweat, cells and tears of every human are small proteins known as peptides. Many peptides can kill ...

Bacteria already perform some of the most remarkable chemistry on Earth, from digesting pollutants to producing vitamins in ...

Biochemists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are using AI to tackle one of modern medicine's most pressing challenges: ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses. For the bacterial species that inhabit your gut, there’s a frenzy of viruses ...

Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of individual human cells infected with bacteria that model tuberculosis—and ...

Learning is often thought to require a brain. But learning is a broad concept that does not necessarily depend on neurons. If an organism uses information from past experiences to shape its future ...