A mechanosensitive fluorescent probe visualises and quantifies the mechanical stress on bacterial membranes upon contact with ...

In natural environments, bacteria rarely live as free-swimming cells but are attached to surfaces as biofilms in medical ...

From medicine to agriculture and aquaculture, bacteriophages are poised to have a huge global impact. As viruses which target ...

Like a bouncer guarding the entrance to an exclusive nightclub, the blood-brain barrier - a dense layer of cells surrounding ...

The capsules light up upon encountering blood in the gut. A brighter glow indicates more bleeding. In A Nutshell Speed ...

Nanogel with targeting sugars and antimicrobial peptides kills P. aeruginosa, E. coli, and MRSA, wiping out free cells and ...

In a biofilm “community,” bacteria can do things that individual bacterial cells cannot — for example, forming barriers that ...

Most days you move through the world without thinking about the invisible creatures that surround you. Yet one of them, a ...

Ostracods, sometimes called seed shrimp, are nearly microscopic, aquatic organisms, inhabiting all types of marine and freshwater environments. Using fluorescence microscopy, the team discovered that ...

Just as humans heal from injuries, bacteria survive by repairing their own damaged DNA. A team of Korean researchers has now ...

Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have imaged a heritable form of bacterial symbiosis inside the ...

This research presents nanogels that effectively target P. aeruginosa, achieving 99.9 % inhibition and opening a path to ...