How Bacteria Sense Death Around Them and Prepare for Battle
Bacteria detect cell wall fragments as danger signals and form protective biofilms, a survival strategy seen across species ...
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Climate Change Is Driving Dangerous Bacteria Farther North
An estimated 80,000 Americans each year contract vibriosis, a sometimes-fatal infection caused by a genus of waterborne bacteria called Vibrio. These bacteria thrive in warmer waters, so as sea ...
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Bad bacteria can trigger painful gut contractions; new research shows how
Immune cells (magenta) and cells expressing a reporter of immune stimulation (cyan), imaged in 3D in a live zebrafish larva. The cells are dynamic, and in our experiments we found that their ...