How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus, organize and pack their genome into the cell? Supercoiling enables this but forces a different kind of transcription and translation in prokaryotes. Aa Aa Aa ...

Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria in ...

In bacteria, researchers have long known ... Rho work as complementary—not redundant—safeguards for genome stability when E. coli are subject to high-salt stress." The implications could ...

Evidence has emerged about the way bacteria become resistant to multiple drugs. The findings by a John Innes Centre research ...

Disinfectants induce oxidative damage in bacteria, but a single mutation triggers the expression of genes that help the ...

Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson ended development of an experimental vaccine after it failed to adequately protect against an ...

By analyzing E. coli protein levels, scientists found a surplus of membrane shuttle proteins that may play a role in antibiotic resistance.

An curved arrow pointing right. The average toothbrush has over 10 million bacteria — and E. coli is often one of them according to a recent study. Produced by Jenner Deal Follow BI Video ...

You've been hearing a lot about E. coli lately, but what do you really know about this bacteria? E. coli bacteria naturally live in the intestines of animals, including humans. Most strains of it ...

A recent study found that the number of E. coli bacteria is increasing in Nairobi, making people sick more often. E. coli is a type of bacteria that lives in the intestines of humans and animals ...