Aspirin triggers BacID (turquoise) to express flagella (turquoise lines), invade into cancer cells (dotted outline) and deliver the therapy intracellularly (green). A University of Massachusetts ...

However, the dilution and preservation of sperm are both processes that can be damaged by low temperature damage, oxidative stress and bacterial infection (Holst ... The ZnO NPs were efficient (green) ...

Early on in the research, the scientists discovered that it was the bacterial flagella—part of the cell that aids in movement—that enables the bacteria to invade cancer cells. So they ...

Early on in the research, the scientists discovered that it was the bacterial flagella – part of the cell that aids in movement – that enables the bacteria to invade cancer cells. So they engineered a ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst-Ernest Pharmaceuticals team of scientists has made "exciting," patient-friendly advances in developing a non-toxic bacterial therapy, BacID, to deliver cancer ...

found in some bacteria, plays a crucial role in resisting host immune attacks, adaptation to new niches and pathogenesis. 10 Surface appendages like pili, also known as fimbriae, aid in attachment and ...

A new study published in Biochemistry sheds light on how bacteria regulate their genes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified a strain of bacteria that ...