A new study by Professor Ludmilla Aristilde and her team shows how soil microbes steer carbon flow to adapt and create ...

Disrupting the chemical messages that oral bacteria use to coordinate growth may help prevent disease by keeping plaque communities in a healthier state. Like all living things, bacteria adapt in ...

Some bacteria can cause mutations associated with colon cancer. Insights about the surface adhesion proteins that enable these bacteria to bind to host cells point to how steps leading to tumour ...

For decades, pharmaceutical companies have been using bacteria found in soil and water to chemically convert steroids into ...

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Lars Stevens-Cullinane works in a dark room. But he's not processing negatives and printing photographs on light-sensitive ...

Evo’s success wasn’t limited to proteins. When they tested a different toxin that had an RNA-based inhibitor, the system ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." Scientists ...

An experiment designed to test the technique could launch on India's first crewed space mission. If all goes to plan, scientists may someday begin building outposts on the moon — and some experts ...

Even if you know instinctively that your kitchen sponge can get pretty nasty, the numbers still might shock you: 54 billion bacteria per cubic centimeter (yes, billion with a B) can be found on a ...

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