Discover the importance of antibiotics, bacterial cell walls, and resistance mechanisms in fighting bacterial infections effectively.

The beta-lactam ring portion of the antibiotic targets the penicillin-binding proteins (PBP), found in the bacterial cell membrane, which function in the synthesis of the cell wall. Binding of the ...

Microbes that reside peaceably in the nasal passageways and on the skin can be harnessed for taking drugs to target cells.

Light and electron microscopy have distinct limitations. Light microscopy makes it difficult to resolve smaller and smaller ...

Current optical and electron microscopy imaging techniques are not suited for measuring the dynamic characteristics of living microorganisms at tiny scales due to complex sample preparation methods or ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is commonly known to be ...

In the early 2010s, it was shown that the naturally formed nanostructure on the wings of cicada and dragonfly wings can resist bacterial contamination. The structures damage the cell membrane of ...

As one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in the U.S. unfolds in Kansas, UC San Diego researchers and their colleagues ...

Yersinia bacteria use a membrane protein called Invasin to attach to human cells—a clever trick that the researchers decided to repurpose. "We started to think out of the box and try something ...