We’re not talking in a metaphorical sense. This bacterium quite literally acts like a living wire. Candidatus Electrothrix yaqonensis is a filamentous, multicellular bacterium that channels electrons ...

Tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each year, and kills more than 1 million annually. Once established in the lungs, the bacteria's ...

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have uncovered a surprising way in which harmful bacteria prepare to attack ...

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a new compartment formed by the bacterial protein CsrA.

Macrophages salvage nutrients from the bacteria they phagocytose to regulate inflammatory responses, revealing ...

Cell wall peptidoglycan is a defining component of bacterial cells, and its biosynthesis is a major target for medically important antibiotics. Recent studies have revealed that antibiotics can kill ...

To achieve these advances, however, scientists must first know how phages specifically attach to bacterial cells early in infection — information ... In the new method, a fluorescent dye is used to ...

However, the application of traditional CAR T cell therapy in gastrointestinal cancers faces numerous challenges, including the suppressive tumor microenvironment and limitations in anti-tumor ...