Laboratory of Biology and Genetics of Bacterial Cell Wall has the following research output in the current window (1 December 2024 - 30 November 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a ...

Antibiotic resistance is a significant and growing medical problem worldwide. Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and collaborators have found a novel genetic arrangement that may ...

Antibiotics can destroy many types of bacteria, but increasingly, bacterial pathogens are gaining resistance to many commonly used types. As the threat of antibiotic resistance looms large, ...

A high-fat diet can cause the intestinal lining to weaken, allowing live gut bacteria to travel directly to the brain in mice ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a main cause of bacterial pneumonia worldwide. It can also cause ear and sinus infections and, in ...

Researchers engineered pathogenic bacteria called Myxococcus xanthus to move in swirled patterns; mutant versions of those microbes that produce excessive levels of two proteins, which the bacterial ...

As it turns out, the most powerful tool for tinkering with nature’s blueprints came from nature itself. Developed in the early 2010s, CRISPR is a technique for editing DNA with painstaking precision.

Scientists have engineered a common probiotic bacterium to act like a microscopic drug factory that hunts down tumors and delivers cancer-killing compounds directly where they’re needed. Credit: ...

MIT researchers have identified how communities of ocean bacteria cooperate to decompose biodegradable plastics, a finding that could reshape how scientists and manufacturers think about the fate of ...