Chiral objects, such as amino acids, are distinguishable from their mirror image. For living systems, the fundamental mechanisms relating cellular handedness to chirality at the multicellular scale re...

Bacteria frequently inhabit surface-attached communities where rich “social” interactions can significantly alter their population-level behavior, including their response to antibiotics. Understandin...

A resistant bacterial ribosome variant is outcompeted despite antibiotic pressure when Mg2+ is limited, exposing a vulnerability.

Staphylococcus epidermidis is a skin-dwelling bacterium responsible for common clinical infections. In this study, we discovered that S. epidermidis becomes electrically excitable when exposed to the acidic pH of healthy skin. This excitability enables antibiotics-free, bioelectronic suppression of the opportunistic pathogen using mild stimulation conditions.