Colon cancer is a particularly deadly form of cancer, and the incidence of the disease is rising, especially among younger ...

Scientists have uncovered how certain E. coli bacteria in the gut promote colon cancer by binding to intestinal cells and ...

Some phages make use of bacterial pili by attaching to them and allowing bacteria to reel the phage to the surface, where the phage can start infecting the bacteria. In their study, co-first ...

Caption This video shows a pilus shoot out from the bacterial cell to latch onto a piece of DNA. The image on the right shows the bacteria and pilus in green and the DNA in red. The image on the ...

Both studies investigated bacteria from the phylogenetically distinct ... and genes that are predicted to encode type IV pilus biosynthesis were also found. Type IV pili were reported to have ...

Scientists have uncovered how certain E. coli bacteria in the gut promote colon cancer by binding to intestinal cells and ...