Even highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria become more vulnerable when their cell wall transport system is disrupted, ...

New research from Indiana University has uncovered a previously unknown vulnerability in how bacteria build the whip-like ...

Antibiotic resistance is considered one of the most urgent health threats of our time. Common bacteria such as E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus are evolving defenses against the drugs doctors rely on ...

New research headed by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine suggests that when bacteria are under antibiotic attack, it is not “every man for himself.” The team developed a genetic system in ...

New research has shown how collaboration can even be beneficial in the microbial world. A study reported in Science has outlined how bacterial cells can work in unison to survive antibiotic exposure.

Teichoic acids are anionic glycopolymers that decorate the cell envelopes of Gram-positive bacteria and play central roles in cell shape determination, autolysin regulation, ion homeostasis and host ...

Bacterial proliferation relies upon an exquisitely coordinated series of events that culminate in cell division and the remodelling of the peptidoglycan sacculus. Division begins with assembly of the ...