Bacteria are among the smallest living things. A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria.

Bacteria are among the smallest living things. A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria.

As well as degrading proteins, the proteosome surprisingly also functions in human defence against bacterial infection. By ...

Audrey Proenca. Single-cell organisms like bacteria were considered "immortal" for a long time. Because bacteria divide into two equal parts and bacterial strains can continue on indefinitely ...

Eventually, a phage makes so many copies of itself that it will burst the bacterial cell it has infected. Scientists have known for a while that ... The handshakes involve a large, central protein ...

Scientists have developed a new drug that could help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a major threat to public health.

Bacteria produce specific proteins in order to protect themselves against being marked by a cell and then destroyed. A multidisciplinary team in Cologne has now discovered proteins which can provide ...