The bacteria of the family Desulfobulbaceae are like living electric cables—they can conduct electrons over centimeter-scale distances along their filamentous structures. These electric currents can ...

Cyanobacteria are one of the oldest and most important life forms in the world – for example as they took an essential part in producing the oxygen in our atmosphere. Some types form long filaments ...

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...

This picture illustrates an example of gut microbiota composition dictating how resident lung alveolar macrophages (AM) respond to viral infection. The presence of segmented filamentous bacteria, a ...

The paper K. Fuchino et al., “Dynamic gradients of an intermediate filament-like cytoskeleton are recruited by a polarity landmark during apical growth,” PNAS, 110:1889-97, 2013. Although most ...

In a study published recently in the journal Small ("Fabrication of Electronically Conductive Protein-Heme Nanowires for Power Harvesting"), researchers revealed that protein nanowires – which were ...

Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella around their bodies and moving forward. Using a microfluidic device that mimics ...