By testing the Phage Library on both whole lung tumour cells and normal cells ... these environments – including plants, animals and debris – also poses a challenge to robotic swimmers.

Microplastics—tiny shards of plastic debris—are all ... infect bacterial cells and influence the structure of the microbial community. To fend off phage attacks, bacteria have evolved their ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

Bacteria navigate tradeoffs between phage resistance and interbacterial competition. This study reveals that while LPS ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...

which specifically infect bacteria but not human cells, affect the development of type 1 diabetes in young children. Because phages exert pressure on the bacteria they infect and some phage ...

Whilst the ultimate outcome of the lytic cycle is production of new phage progeny and death of the host bacterial cell, this is a multistep process involving precise coordination of gene transcription ...

You, me, and all of the 108 billion or so Homo sapiens who’ve ever walked the Earth have all been our own constellation of some 30 trillion cells. Each of our bodies is a collective organism of ...