This trick allows the bacteria to make themselves at home in the host cell and avoid falling prey to the immune system. Working together with the University of Cologne structural biologists led by ...

Scientists in South Korea have engineered tiny bacterial cells that are churning out plastic ... The problem is that the same qualities that make plastic so appealing (durability and low cost), make ...

Various microbes, including several human pathogens, hijack the cell’s skeleton, membranes, and protein-making machinery to make themselves at home. Intracellular bacteria use various tricks to ...

Biology might ultimately provide a solution, however. Researchers have identified bacteria that evolved the ability to digest ...

Scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders -- by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and using it to 'vaccinate' ...