New research has provided fresh insights into how a dangerous bacterium called Legionella pneumophila can interfere with the normal functions of the cells it infects. The findings have been reported ...
Mitochondria are known as energy suppliers for our cells, but they also play an important role in the defense against pathogens. They can initiate immune responses, and deprive pathogens of the ...
"What our work shows is how a complex in the center of the cell, the ER-Golgi interaction region, controls plasma membrane cholesterol, which is essential for many cellular functions, if not essential ...
For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...
New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different “shutdown modes,” not ...
A new meeting report was published in Volume 17, Issue 12 of Aging-US on December 23, 2025, titled “Cellular senescence meets ...
Duke researchers may have come up with a way to disarm them, and thus help prevent $220 billion in annual crop damage DURHAM, N.C. -- Many of the bacteria that ravage crops and threaten our food ...
Some crop pathogens use a clever trick to multiply and spread infection: they hijack the plant's cellular plumbing. In a new study, researchers unveil a class of bacterial proteins that fold into a ...