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 ...

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 ...

In 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armée marched into Russia with more than 600,000 soldiers, only to be decimated not just by battle ...

UCLA scientists found that gut bacteria in toddlers can shape emotional brain networks and may influence the risk of anxiety.

diSArm clinical trial is that our phages injected intravenously can home in to the site of infection, penetrate biofilms, infect, and lyse S. aureus. Many deaths post flu, and most likely also ...

Edited by Scott Hultgren, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; received March 7, 2024; accepted January 27, 2025 ...

Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Science, "Regional encoding of enteric nervous system ...

The Earth's atmosphere represents one of the most extreme and challenging habitats for microbial life, characterized by ...

The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of leading medical virologists representing 80+ Centers of Excellence and ...