Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the United States, announced the publication of new research in PLOS Pathogens identifying a novel mechanism that may trigger ...

Asymmetric envelope surface disposition of secreted protein YjbI controls bimodal antibiotic susceptibilities in C. crescentus . EMBO J (2026). Antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria is ...

Bacterial physiology is a scientific discipline that concerns the life-supporting functions and processes of bacteria, which allow bacterial cells to grow and reproduce. The BAM protein complex ...

From diagnostics to CRISPR and policy reform, explore how science and society are working together to combat the rising ...

The bacterial cell wall, essential for structural integrity, is synthesized with penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs). Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) evades vancomycin by replacing D-Ala-D-Ala ...

Bacterial polysaccharides exhibit remarkable structural diversity and play critical roles in the biology of their producing organisms. A recent study defines the minimal machinery for polymerization ...

Background Both host and microbe metabolism of tryptophan (Trp) is altered in diabetes; however, the molecular mechanisms are ...