When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of ...

Researchers have revealed how a common bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis), releases lactic acid to acidify its surroundings and suppress the immune-cell signal needed to start a proper ...

Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have uncovered how the bacteria that causes tuberculosis fuels itself during infection, providing new insights into one of the world's ...

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine are studying C. diff at multiple levels, from how individual bacterial cells behave inside the gut to the molecular switches that help them survive ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco used a naturally occurring carbon isotope and exhaled CO(2) to catch bacterial infections. MEMPHIS, ...

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

These long E. coli cells can swim their way into tubes, like catheters, so DeCurtis et al. studied the dynamics of elongated ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a main cause of bacterial pneumonia worldwide. It can also cause ear and sinus infections and, in ...

Infectious diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, and diagnosing bacterial infections remains a challenge in medicine ...

It could enable doctors to diagnose infections such as pneumonia much quicker - without the need for invasive blood tests.