Bacteria are also able to communicate with each other through chemical signals, a behavior known as quorum signaling (QS). These chemical signals spread through a biofilm that colonies of bacteria ...

Calcium oxalate stones comprise greater than 70% of all kidney stones. In the current conceptual framework, the initial stone ...

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

Biologists from ETH Zurich have discovered speargun- like molecular injection systems in two types of bacteria and have described their structure for the first time. The special nanomachines are used ...

New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of ...

Scientists have discovered that a human receptor protein has the ability to detect individual amino acids in exactly the same way that bacteria do. The finding could lead to enhancements of drugs ...

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