This structure has no membrane, making it a "membraneless compartment," which scientists now believe is crucial in regulating how bacteria behave. "This compartment acts like a temporary control ...

Stop fending off our antibiotics!" A new method is starting to allow scientists to do just that, letting them use light to control certain functions of bacteria. Introduced in a paper published in ...

The relatively new field in microbiology that focuses on quorum sensing has been making strides in understanding how bacteria communicate ... of quorum sensing control of cell cooperation, we ...

Gieske wants to determine how to consistently create communities of this bacteria in the soil to control crop disease, so she is seeking to better understand the microbial ecology of the bacteria by ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Shelbi Russell studies to better understand the relationship between this bacteria and its insect hosts, with implications for the control of human ...

Researchers have discovered that a key bacterial protein, CsrA, gathers in a droplet-like structure inside cells to control when and how bacteria activate their disease-causing genes. This newly ...

Bacteria wouldn’t be so bad if we could tell them what to do. “Stop spreading! Stop sticking together! Stop fending off our antibiotics!” A new method is starting to allow scientists to do just that, ...

Humans currently take advantage of this to control harmful virus populations across the world. New research led at UC Santa Cruz reveals how the bacteria strain Wolbachia pipientis also enhances ...