Bacteria don't have microtubules or actin filaments, but still manage to coordinate movement within the cell. As a student, Anthony Vecchiarelli, Ph.D., found it astounding that "we don't know how ...

The human body contains 20 times more microbes than it does cells. In fact, a visitor from outer space might think the human race is just one big chain of microbe hotels.

Salmonella infections cause about a million deaths a year worldwide, and there is an urgent need for better vaccines for both typhoid fever and non-typhoidal Salmonella disease. New work from ...

Newly published research finds that bacteria—and not just the kinds in our colons, but many types in many environments—use changes in calcium, controlled through a process called “self-organized ...

Single-cell RNA sequencing to study salmonella infection In May 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled Jif peanut butter due to potential salmonella contamination.

Bacteria talk to each other using N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) as quorum sensing (QS) signals. Now, researchers at Linköping University in Sweden are showing how bacteria control processes in ...

Once the cell envelope loses its shape, all of the bacteria eventually burst open and die, Goley says. Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers who rely on ...

New research by Adam Rosenthal, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, has found that some bacteria cells get hangry too, releasing harmful toxins into our ...

Bacteria cells in colonies that had previously swarmed were more prone to swarm again than those that hadn't, and their offspring followed suit for at least four generations—about two hours. On ...

Researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the germ's shape. Because the integrity of a bacterial cell's ...