Algae are the new delivery drivers: they are tiny enough to float in inhalable liquid particles and travel deep inside the ...

Tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each year, and kills ...

Our lungs are constantly exposed to the outside world, breathing in not just oxygen but also dust, pollutants, bacteria, and ...

“I was wondering whether the content of those vesicles could also serve the macrophage metabolism.” Bacteria hijack nutrients during an infection, explained Garaude. “In order to compensate [for] this ...

Listeria gets its host to build it an actin tail Some intracellular bacteria use the host cell’s actin supplies to build their own transport system. The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes ...

Escape from the vacuole following invasion is crucial for cytosolic pathogens. Bacteria escape rapidly from the vacuole through mechanisms that rely on the production of secreted enzymes and form ...