Nature has designed some spectacular micromachines, such as the flagella that propel bacterial cells, or microbial injection systems that can be found on a variety of organisms. Researchers have now ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have harnessed a natural bacterial system to develop a new protein delivery approach that ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers investigated the feasibility of utilizing a bacterial contractile injection system for programmable protein delivery. Endosymbiotic bacteria have ...

New study reveals how bacteria use a special system, like a tiny syringe, to inject toxins into other organisms. This is important because it helps us understand how bacteria interact with hosts and ...

Type VI secretion systems (T6SS) are sophisticated nanomachines that bacteria employ to inject effector proteins directly into neighbouring cells. These systems are structurally reminiscent of ...