Mapping the hidden world: Discover how this groundbreaking catalog of nearly one billion small proteins is set to transform our understanding of microbial life. In a recent study published in the ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Further analysis of PifA and PifB revealed that they exhibit many of the characteristics of eukaryotic host-associated ...

Researchers have uncovered how a disease-causing bacterium uses a single protein to interfere with the body's defenses in ...

National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today - knowing a gene ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown bacterial protein, the structure of which is being used in the design of protein nanoparticles for the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs to tumors.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, ...

To date, several studies have established a connection between the brain and the gut microbiota. Now, research in mice from scientists at Duke University School of Medicine and their collaborators ...