Norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, is highly infectious among people in confined places – like cruise ships. But not ...

V-161, a novel compound targeting the Na+ -V-ATPase enzyme in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE), significantly ...

The human immune system is like an army of specialized soldiers (immune cells) each with a unique role to play in fighting ...

Discover how Nobel laureate Ardem Patapoutian's research on PIEZO channels revolutionizes our understanding of human biology.

An IBEC-led study describes the development of an innovative method to control the formation of crypt-like structures and villi in the intestine using a contact protein printing technique. This model ...

Shigella infection can cause severe discomfort in humans, emphasizing the need for mechanisms to understand it. With new technologies and animal models, you can see how far life science researchers ...

Scientists have revealed the secret to the structural integrity of tiny particles that transport cargo from cell to cell through blood vessels and bodily fluids: special proteins that keep their ...

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 ...

A study published in PNAS reveals how a bacterial pathogen coordinates N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) metabolism at the post-transcriptional level via a novel small noncoding RNA to promote ...

Sialic acids are a family of alpha-keto acid sugars with a nine-carbon backbone, functioning as terminal sugars on cell surface glycoproteins and ... sialic acid metabolism to adapt to the host’s ...