Researchers at Pitt have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage–phage for short–that has allowed them to ...

To the naked eye, the egg of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito is just a dark speck, but under ... up on a microscope slide. Hammond looks for the narrow end, where the germ line cells that will ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a ...

Today's super-resolution microscopes have made it possible to observe the nanoscale world with unprecedented detail. However, they require fluorescent tags, which reveal structural details but provide ...

In the modern world, digestive health is often overlooked until discomfort ... the microbiome is constantly under attack. As a result, demand has surged for reliable, natural solutions that ...

In this case, the immune system is erroneously attacking healthy tissue in the gut ... This study, reported in Science Immunology, has highlighted the role of white blood cells in the gastrointestinal ...

Scientists apply principles of math and physics to unravel the mystery of how the endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle vital ...

The thylakoids contain the light-harvesting complex, including pigments such as chlorophyll, as well as the electron transport chains used in photosynthesis (Figure 2). Plant cell walls are ...