Bacteria are a cornerstone of the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, helping produce everything from drugs and beer to biodiesel and fertilizer. The pharmaceutical industry, in particular, relies ...

Instead of killing bacteria, scientists found a way to gently guide gut microbes to produce compounds linked to longevity and healthier aging.

An international research team has demonstrated that Janus nanoparticles can disrupt the defenses of drug-resistant ...

Protein translocation is an essential, nano-scale dynamic process that facilitates the movement of proteins across cellular ...

Antibiotics researchers have long focused on the proteins inside bacteria, hoping to find a key piece of the bacteria’s molecular machinery that, when disrupted, kills the bugs and cures infections.

Scientists create powerful metallic antibiotics using robotic chemistry, capable of eliminating lethal bacteria without ...

Space-based experiments show that microgravity-induced mutations in bacteriophages may improve their ability to target ...

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Targeted protein degradation presents a promising strategy to address antimicrobial resistance, focusing on innovative ...

The chemical reactions on which life depends need a place to happen. That place is the cell. All the things which biology recognises as indisputably alive are either cells or conglomerations of cells ...