Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., recommends the books that ...

The trillions of microbial cells in our gastrointestinal tract have their own genomes and metabolic products, many of which can affect human biology, and some of them ... has suggested that taking aim ...

Cyanobacteria use an AM radio-like principle to coordinate cell division with circadian rhythms, encoding information through ...

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 ...

Mirror life, a concept involving synthetic organisms with reversed molecular structures, carries significant risks despite ...

A research group has discovered an interesting way that bacteria adapt to their environment. Their study, published in ...

The solution: a polymer coating that integrates with the bacterial cell membrane. Polymers are large molecules made up of billions of identical units called monomers. "We essentially grafted an E.

To understand mirror bacteria ... biology teachers will likely have told you that DNA is exclusively “right-handed”, while nearly all amino acids are left-handed. The processes in our cells ...

However, when they exposed immune cells from the blood to microorganisms like viruses and bacteria in the lab, the immune system reacted much stronger than immune cells of individuals outside the ...

As scientists seek to better understand the molecular nature of life, the possibility of creating organisms with radically different biology ... bacteria have been proposed for live-cell ...