Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found a way to use a bacterium's own drug resistance mechanisms ...
Soil microbes benefit plants by helping with nutrient uptake and disease resistance. Modulating these communities of bacteria ...
A lab at the University of Colorado Boulder is studying ways to improve indoor air quality, including a recent study that ...
US scientists have bioengineered the octopus pigment xanthommatin in bacteria, producing 1,000 times more material than traditional methods.
A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...