The widespread and indiscriminate use of antibiotics has prompted many bacteria to mutate, an adaptation that often renders the drugs useless. The increasing threat of resistance worries infectious ...

Researchers have discovered why an unusually short bacterial protein can have many more interactions than would normally be expected of something its size. The team found that the protein, UmuD, ...

An important bacterial protein called UmuD may help prevent antibiotic resistance, scientists say. Penny Beuning from Northeastern University’s college of science and colleagues are studying UmuD that ...