Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

The aging of the innermost cell layer of blood vessels leads to cardiovascular diseases. Researchers at UZH have now shown ...

Leveraging a bacterial species to build strong bricks from fine, lunar soil-like material, scientists explore a sustainable ...

New research shows that harmful E. coli bacteria in the gut can make the amoeba parasite Entamoeba histolytica more mobile ...

Discover how neurodegenerative diseases may start with blood-brain barrier damage, leading to memory loss and cognitive ...

Most people have encountered the black, gray, or pink stains of bacterial biofilms built up on the bathroom tiles or kitchen ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe after analyzing samples taken from China's Tiangong space ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

Researchers from TU Wien, University of Vienna, and Tufts University discovered how microorganisms swim efficiently without ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

Researchers have discovered that some gut bacteria can reduce the side effects of chemotherapy, and that one family of cancer ...

We recently described an RNA‐binding protein, Y14, that binds preferentially to spliced mRNAs and persists in the cytoplasm. Y14 is part of a multi‐protein complex that also contains the mRNA export ...