Mutations — distortions in bacterial genetic material — can cause bacteria to acquire proteins that pump the antibiotic out ...

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Researchers have discovered that bacteria can sense threats in advance through a general danger signal. Bacteria detect when nearby cells are dying and proactively form a protective biofilm.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a formidable challenge in global health, marked by the declining effectiveness of traditional antibiotics against ...

Of course, the world is full of germs, despite all our wiping and washing, but it’s disturbing to find so much bacteria – ...

Researchers have described how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus genetically adapts to humans, including mutations that allow some strains to evade the immune system and become resistant to ...

The study, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge, the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia at the ...

University of Basel researchers have discovered that bacteria can sense threats in advance through a general danger signal.

University of Basel researchers have discovered that bacteria can sense threats in advance through a general danger signal. Bacteria detect when ...

The most detailed study to date on the mechanisms by which a common type of bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, adapts to ...

The bacterial cell wall is crucial to maintain viability. It has previously been suggested that Gram-positive bacteria have a periplasmic region between the cell membrane and peptidoglycan cell wall ...