Bacteria are constantly moving by help of motility organs called flagella or pili to colonize new niches. Also, bacteria can exchange information, like “speaking to each other”, and thus acquire new ...

To reflect this reality, the Gladstone Institute of Virology has taken on a new name: the Gladstone Infectious Disease ...

A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday ...

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

Notably, the Imperial researchers also tried various LLMs not specifically designed for scientific reasoning. These included ...

The Yale labs of Craig Roy and Jun Liu have harnessed the power of cryo-EM to solve a 30-year mystery of how the Legionella ...

The blood pressure-lowering effect of nitrate-rich beetroot juice in older people may be due to specific changes in their ...

Tal Feldman is a student at Yale Law School who formerly built AI and data tools for U.S. government agencies. Jonathan ...

Our gut microbes and genes are in constant conversation, shaping each other in ways that affect everything from immunity and ...

Researchers have dived into the pre-antibiotic history of plasmids — one of bacteria’s tools of antimicrobial resistance — to understand how they have facilitated the spread of treatment-resistant ...

An analysis of commercial raw cat foods has detected disease-causing microbes, including some that are resistant to ...