Illinois researchers combined microbiology with microfluidic device technology to find that when antibiotics are delivered by flowing fluids, as would be the case in the body, they are more effective ...

Whether in the human body or on surfaces, bacteria protect themselves from outside attackers using biofilms. Physicist Eleonora Secchi is researching how these slime-like protective films are formed, ...

Bacteria like E. coli have hair-like protrusions known as fimbriae with a sticky protein on the tip. This adhesive protein is called FimH and binds in an unusual way to a sugar molecule present on the ...