Anna Hirsch has now taken a closer look at a less obvious difference between bacteria and humans that has not yet been pharmaceutically exploited: the so-called methylerythritol phosphate pathway ...

Scientists uncover a surprising link between mouth bacteria and brain health, revealing how your mouth may influence ...

Disinfectants induce oxidative damage in bacteria, but a single mutation triggers the expression of genes that help the ...

The new molecules target a metabolic pathway that only occurs in bacterial cells, thus sparing human cells. The team published its results in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the ...

Conserved immune pathways “What we’ve been finding is the way that bacteria stop phages is very similar to the ways that humans fight off their pathogens,” Ledvina says. “The same proteins, as well as ...

The new molecules target a metabolic pathway that only occurs in bacterial cells, thus sparing human cells. The team published its results in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Methanol is metabolized into the natural gas methane by many microbes living under Earth’s surface, but its source has been unclear. It emerges that some bacteria convert formate molecules into ...