Earth's first photosynthetic organisms—self-organize into intricate living mats, offering insights into aquatic ecosystems ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Each year, most species of bacteria in a Wisconsin lake rapidly evolved, apparently in response to dramatically changing seasons, and then evolved back.

To stay healthy, plants balance the energy they put into growing with the amount they use to defend against harmful bacteria.

These hypothetical organisms get their name from how their molecules would face the opposite way to those in the cells of ... in the journal Science. "Our view is that mirror bacteria and other ...

Scientists are calling for a halt to the creation of “mirror bacteria,” synthetic microorganisms ... debate about the future of synthetic biology and its ethical limits.

A new study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science (Carnegie Science ... that enabled them to watch a single cell of the beneficial bacterial species Lactiplantibacillus plantarum colonize ...

Stool cultures revealed that all three were infected with Shigella sonnei, a strain of Shigella bacteria that is resistant to five of the antibiotic classes most commonly prescribed for such ...

As a young adult, the books I read on biology and ... Our microbiomes, the bacteria that live in and on our bodies which at least equal and may exceed the number of human cells, are in constant ...

While the science and technology necessary to create mirror bacteria in a laboratory is a ... Many synthetic biologists seek to understand how cells could be created from their constituent ...

The findings, published in the journal Science, said: "Our analysis suggests that mirror bacteria would likely ... whatever species or cell it is in. Conversely, amino acids – the building ...