Scientists have found that antibodies stop UTI-causing E. coli by jamming or mimicking cell receptors, preventing bacterial ...

Certain antibodies employ unusual tactics to keep germs from attaching to cells in our bodies. Their defensive strategies ...

An E.coli bacterium (pink) binds to a host cell surface in the lower left of this illustration. Sticking tenuously to a host ...

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

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 ...

The study reveals that environmental stressors do not merely kill bacteria; they can also prime surviving cells to take up ...

The groundwater in four locations of Bhopal tested positive for E.coli bacteria. Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) has ...

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.