A research group has discovered an interesting way that bacteria adapt to their environment. Their study, published in Microbiological Research, reveals that bacteria can evolve by losing their ...

Biological motors, which aid microorganism movement in fluids, are composed of two components -- the rotor and stators. Despite much research, the exact molecular mechanism underlying stator function ...

Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet—in the fight against antibiotic resistance. The "molecular machine" flagellum is essential for bacteria to cause ...

How well bacteria move and sense their environment directly affects their success in surviving and spreading. About half of known bacteria species use a flagella to move — a rotating appendage that ...

Scientists at Arizona State University have uncovered surprising new ways bacteria move, even without their usual whip-like propellers called flagella. In one study, E. coli and salmonella were found ...

Mike Manson has spent 50 years at Texas A&M studying the bacterial flagellar motor - a molecular machine that spins hundreds of times per second, outpacing a race car's spinning crankshaft, to drive ...

New mechanistic insights into the protein complex that powers the bacterial flagellum may assist antibiotic development. A study led by researchers at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) used ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of biology’s most intensively studied molecular machines. Bacteria move through ...

Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the structure of Vibrio bacteria, which can cause life-threatening infections linked to antibiotic resistance. The King’s College London team behind the ...

Recently, a research group led by Prof. WANG Junfeng from the Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Prof. HE Yongxing's research group from Lanzhou ...