Breathing, at its core, is about moving electrons. In humans and most other organisms, oxygen acts as the final destination ...

A technique developed by Politecnico di Milano researchers is enabling scientists to control specific bacterial functions ...

One of the possible scenarios for neurotoxicity is that Aβ peptides create pores in the lipid membrane that allow Ca 2+ ions to enter cells, resulting in a signal of cell apoptosis. Hence, one might ...

It has been suggested that postbiotics are non-viable bacterial products or metabolic byproducts secreted from probiotic microorganisms that have biologic activity in the host. While probiotics are ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

Biological Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Division of Pharmacy and ...

While these enzymes naturally act primarily on gram-positive bacteria, their application against gramnegative pathogens is more challenging due to the presence of a dual-layer cell membrane, which ...