Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the ...

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

Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to identify 25 new protein compounds that can kill bacteria and fungi, ...

How do bacteria - harmless ones living in our bodies, or those that cause disease - organize their activities? A new study, combining powerful genomic-scale microscopy with a technical innovation, ...

Microbes that reside peaceably in the nasal passageways and on the skin can be harnessed for taking drugs to target cells.

Scientists from the University of Birmingham have analysed Akkermansia muciniphila for the first time, revealing how this ...

Oral squamous cell cancer (OSCC) is a deadly disease that starts in the cells lining the mouth. It is often diagnosed late, making it hard to treat. Each year, around 450,000 people die from OSCC, ...

Scratching isn’t just a bad habit — it’s an immune defense mechanism. While it fuels inflammation, it also helps fight ...

This article explores the transformative potential and challenges of single cell omics in advancing our understanding of ...

The system relies on the only two commercially available siderophores—one synthetic and the other harnessed from bacteria.

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...