Scientists discover how cells absorb queuosine, a vital nutrient affecting memory, learning, and cancer resistance.

Ensuring food safety while addressing sustainability concerns is one of the poultry industry’s most pressing challenges. As ...

Microbiome? Have you seen it thrown around on social media that the low FODMAP diet may cause "damage" or "disrupt" your gut-microbiome? Perhaps this caused you some worry because you know that the ...

Bacteria can precisely adjust their membrane lipid compositions to control the biophysical properties of their membranes, which allows them to thrive in various physical environments. Here ...

Imagine a bacterial cell—one of the multi-drug-resistant varieties that keep infectious disease experts up at night—blown ...

Chinese scientists have developed a breakthrough process that significantly improves the efficiency and environmental ...

Phage Shock Protein (Psp): A conserved bacterial protein activated during envelope stress, playing a key role in preserving inner membrane integrity and modulating cellular energy strategies.

Zosurabalpin is able to destroy Gram-negative bacteria by jamming LPS molecules inside the bacteria, weakening its membrane. It is the first of its class of antibiotics, and the first new class of ...

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Research led by scientists from the Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB) of the CSIC and the Bellvitge ...

Their findings, published in Cell Biomaterials, identified a handful of short, positively charged peptides that can both rip open bacterial membranes and rally the body’s immune defenses. “The winning ...

An obscure group of phages offers insights into elements of microbial warfare—and blueprints for new antibiotics.