St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified an enzyme that acts early in pneumococcal infections to promote bacterial survival and invasive disease by removing the bacteria's ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria—such as how they synthesize their protective capsules—is essential for developing new ...

The over-abundance or lack of certain types of gut bacteria has been linked to everything from depression to heart disease to childhood asthma. Non-invasively determining which microbes make up a ...

Studying the evolution of macromolecular assemblies is important to improve our understanding of how complex cellular structures evolved, and to identify the functional building blocks that are ...

A clinical trial has shown Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) is effective in treating clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections whether delivered by colonoscopy or by swallowing capsules. The ...

Capsules containing tailored bacteria called “swarmbots” grow and shrink in response to the chemical environment they contain. The swarmbots sense their own population density has reached a certain ...

Bacteria don’t outnumber our own cells 10 to one, as the old myth went, but we do contain trillions of microroganisms. That these organisms influences us as much — if not more — as we influence them ...