Since joining University of Nevada, Reno, Yftah Tal-Gan, Ph.D., has established a chemical biology research program with the overarching goal of developing and utilizing peptide-based probes to study ...

A new study has described a signaling pathway that affects communication -- a process called quorum sensing -- between Streptococcus bacteria cells. A study published in the Journal of Biological ...

Researchers have demonstrated that the absolute number of cells is irrelevant to the process of bacterial quorum sensing; only the number of bacteria in a given volume plays a role. They were even ...

When engaged in battle, a key tactic for defeating your enemies is disrupting their communication. In the battle against deadly diseases that adapt quickly to resist today’s top antibiotics, ...

What Is Quorum Sensing? Individual bacteria use quorum sensing to detect and respond to changes in cell density as a coordinated group. For example, the first reported evidence of quorum sensing was ...

Viruses need hosts. Whether it's measles, the flu or coronavirus, viral pathogens cannot multiply or infect other organisms without the assistance of their hosts' cellular infrastructure. However, ...

Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have redesigned how harmless E. coli bacteria "talk" to each other. The new genetic circuit could become a useful new tool for synthetic ...