A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls ...

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...

Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...

Inside every living cell, proteins and membranes are in constant motion, reshaping, colliding, and flexing as they keep an ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

Key market opportunities in the global competent cells market include rising demands in genetic engineering and synthetic ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...