Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

Scientists use a multimodal approach that combines hard X-ray computed tomography and X-ray fluorescence imaging to see the structure and chemical processes inside of a single cell. Every plant, ...

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life. “I was quite shocked, truly,” said ...

Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...

Biologists have uncovered a new mode of communication inside cells that helps bacterial pathogens learn how to evade drugs.

University of Toronto researchers have expanded our understanding of bacterial immunity with the discovery of a new protein ...

A team led by Dirk Haller, Professor of Immunology and Nutrition at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and Dr. Olivia Coleman has deciphered a mechanism by which bacteria in the gut microbiome ...