Escherichia coli remains a paradigm for understanding cellular signalling, with its chemotaxis system providing insights into how simple organisms navigate complex environments. At the core of this ...

Glowing bacteria use bioluminescence to tell synthetic vesicles when to hitch a ride and when to let go, enabling fully autonomous cargo transport.

When they're starving, they're social. And when they're social, they're slimy. Bacteria are the centerpiece of new research that has disclosed some of the methodology behind the social organization of ...

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life. “I was quite shocked, truly,” said ...

In a surprising twist, gut pathogens like Salmonella are not repelled by fecal indole; instead, they exploit it to locate nutrient-rich environments, turning a microbial defense into a colonization ...