Recent studies suggest that animals and people alike have close and complex relationships with the bacteria around and within ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. These motility organs play important roles in DNA uptake to exchange genetic information between different bacteria, allowing what's ...

How does the gut talk to the brain? A new study identifies polysaccharides and peptidoglycans as the key bacterial signals ...

Future Microbiol. 2014;9(9):1039-1051. The role of sialic acids in the immune defense is of great importance, and in bacterial vaginosis, which is a polymicrobial imbalance of the vaginal flora, ...

Gram-negative bacteria cause a variety of infectious diseases in plants and animals alike. Outbreaks of Salmonella and E. coli infections often make headlines due to their severity, and people have to ...

EcOpgD is a β-1,2-glucanase involved in the adjustment of the chain length of osmo-regulated periplasmic glucans (OPGs). A reaction mechanism with an unprecedentedly long proton transfer pathway has ...

Pathogenic bacteria are highly specialized micro-organisms that are a leading cause of human, livestock and crop disease, resulting in significant health and economic loss worldwide. How these ...

A black bear rummaging through a toppled trash can is a familiar nuisance in parts of the American Southeast. What most ...