Scientists at UMass Amherst and Ernest Pharmaceuticals developed BacID, a bacterial cancer therapy activated by aspirin. This ...

A unique role of pelagic bacterial communities is their ability to transform dissolved organic material into particulate material making it available to higher trophic levels. Small protists ...

Early on in the research, the scientists discovered that it was the bacterial flagella -- part of the cell that aids in movement -- that enables the bacteria to invade cancer cells. So they ...

Their study, published in Microbiological Research, reveals that bacteria can evolve by losing their flagella, the structures responsible for movement. Flagella are important for bacteria because ...

Their study, published in Microbiological Research, reveals that bacteria can evolve by losing their flagella, the structures responsible for movement. The study was led by Prof. Wang Junfeng from ...

A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Ernest Pharmaceuticals is preparing to begin clinical ...

Now, they would like to better understand why these enzymes may be advantageous to both bacteria and their plant hosts. One hypothesis is that chopping up the flagella of pathogens prevents them ...

Good science anticipates the shortcomings of human intuition; it expects that the concepts so useful for interpreting the world around us, at the familiar human scale, may well prove unsuitable ...

The harmless bacteria that cluster around plant roots can influence the plant's balance of growth and defense, a new study ...

Bacteria with flagella, or spinning tails, can move up to a hundred times their body length in a second—a large fish can only move about ten times its body length in a second. The strongest ...

Certain soil bacteria play a crucial role in modulating plant immune responses, and allowing them to grow more efficiently.