While it is clearly informative to study 'static' samples, such as bacteria that are not alive, observing the living organism allows us to directly follow changes in the course of an organism's life, ...

A Dartmouth study finds that molecular hitchhikers living within bacteria can make their hosts extra resistant to medical ...

The E. coli cells were imaged by the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL. A tiny needle - just a few nanometers wide - was run over the bacterial cell, “feeling” the shape to create an image, a ...

Hydrogels are soft, jelly-like materials that can absorb large amounts of water. They are widely used in medical technologies ...

Driven by the desire to end the devastation caused by the pandemic, Prof. Matthew DeLisa, chemical engineering, turned E. coli bacterium into a powerful biotechnology tool to yield fast answers to ...

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

Stunning images reveal for the first time how antibiotics pierce deadly bacteria’s armor. British scientists have shown how life-saving drugs called polymyxins puncture the defenses of harmful bugs.