Most bacteria, including many bacterial pathogens, are surrounded by an outer protective layer of sugar molecules, known as a ...

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 ...

The first line of defense used by the human blood-brain barrier in response to bacterial meningitis is described by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine in ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers have developed an ingestible optoelectronic capsule that enables two-way communication between humans and engineered gut bacteria, which is a global first. The breakthrough, ...

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 ...

Probiotics are often promoted for gut health, but scientists are increasingly discovering that these “good bacteria” may also affect the brain. A new study from Örebro University in Sweden suggests ...

An enzyme antibiotics rely on to kill bacteria also promotes survival of pneumococcus and sets the stage for serious, invasive infections, scientists have discovered. St. Jude Children's Research ...

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered that an enzyme antibiotics rely on to kill bacteria also promotes survival of pneumococcus and sets the stage for serious, invasive ...