Cornell scientists have engineered E. coli to act as a sensitive biosensor for monitoring environmental arsenic, a toxic ...

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, ...

Scientists have uncovered how certain E. coli bacteria in the gut promote colon cancer by binding to intestinal cells and releasing a DNA-damaging toxin. The study, published in Nature, sheds light on ...

A critical group of small molecules attracting a spotlight reside in Escherichia coli and are intricately connected with how the bacterial cell responds to potentially lethal events. A team of ...

Ghent, 7 November 2024 – Scientists have uncovered how certain E. coli bacteria in the gut promote colon cancer by binding to intestinal cells and releasing a DNA-damaging toxin. The study, published ...

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.

California researchers have identified a possible link between toxin in the gut and increase in cancer cases in people under the age of 50 ...

Scientists have engineered probiotic bacteria to act as tumor-seeking drug factories. In mice, these bacteria infiltrated ...

But when antibiotics are ineffective, some rod-like bacteria, such as E. coli, elongate as a stress response, lengthening ...

Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer globally; however, current treatments are limited by disease complexity. A study published in the open-access journal in PLOS Biology by Tianyu ...