Bacteria are constantly moving by help of motility organs called flagella or pili to colonize new niches. Also, bacteria can exchange information, like “speaking to each other”, and thus acquire new ...

Constipation is often treated as a simple plumbing problem, too little movement, too much delay. But emerging research ...

Swarming is one of the principal forms of bacterial motility facilitated by flagella and surfactants. It plays a distinctive role in both disease and healing. For example, in urinary tract infections ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have found two gut bacteria working together that contribute to chronic constipation ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have found two gut bacteria working together that contribute to chronic constipation. The duo, Akkermansia muciniphila and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron , ...

Turns out, gut health goes beyond what you eat.

By Vijay Kumar Malesu Emerging evidence suggests that microbial metabolites not only regulate endogenous GLP-1 secretion but may also influence therapeutic response to GLP-1 receptor agonists, raising ...

Previous studies argued that bacterial cells are too small to directly sense differences in chemical concentration, including chemicals like nutrients and the antibiotics used to treat infections The ...