Scientists have identified a new type of protein in bacteria that could change our understanding of how these organisms ...

Cryo-electron microscopy has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is the first structure of a virus able to infect Staphylococcus epidermidis, and high ...

In a joint initiative between the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne and Bern, and the EPFL the Dubochet Center for Imaging ...

Through cryo-electron microscopy analysis, Schuller’s group has succeeded in determining the HDCR structure at atomic resolution.

Scientists who have described in a new study the step-by-step details of a bacterial defense strategy see the mechanism as a ...

Cryo-electron microscopy by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail.

An international research team led by the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) has discovered a new strategy used by ...

Helicobacter pylori, best known for causing stomach ulcers, was shown to block the build-up of both amyloid-beta and tau in our study.

In this work, the investigators applied advanced technologies to analyze ribosomal events at the molecular level; tools like single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) and ...

False color scanning electron micrograph of ''Vibrio vulnificus'' bacteria. Source - CDC/James Gathany (PHIL #7815). Public Domain False color scanning electron micrograph of ''Vibrio vulnificus ...

A unique “flat” dimeric structure of bacterial photosynthetic reaction centre-light harvesting membrane complexes discovered by state-of-the-art cryogenic electron microscopy. Researchers at ...

Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet - in the fight against antibiotic ...