A newly developed therapy inspired by bacteria residing within tumors offers a different way to combat cancer by targeting how tumor cells produce energy.

Amyloids are perhaps best known as a key driver of Alzheimer's disease. The amorphous proteins, found throughout the human body, stick to nerve cells like plaque, choking off their function and ...

Researchers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research revealed a mechanism involving protein aggregation that allows bacteria to enter a ...

Joe Bondy-Denomy solves a CRISPR caper: this is how a viral protein stows itself on protein factories in bacteria, and destroys a CRISPR protein, designed to kill viruses, while it's being made.

Details of their preclinical work in mice are provided in a new Nature Microbiology paper titled “Polypeptides synthesized by common bacteria in the human gut improve rodent metabolism.” According to ...

Can you please introduce yourself and your role at LifeArc? As part of my Biochemistry degree at University of Leeds, I completed an industry placement at LifeArc. This was my first introduction to ...

Biologists converted gut bacteria into miniature protein factories that manufacture and release a sustained flow of targeted proteins inside the lower intestines. This technique solves one of the ...

Deep under your feet, bacteria live busy lives. They swim, eat, and even hunt each other. Now, researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered a strange protein that might change what we ...

A new class of insecticidal proteins discovered in common soil bacteria could unlock novel pathways for developing ...