Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

By spinning bacteria in a controlled flow, scientists produce aligned cellulose sheets with tensile strength over 500 MPa.

In a world overrun with plastic garbage, causing untold environmental woes, University of Houston assistant professor of ...

A study from the UK tested swabs from cell phone screens and car keys in petri dishes, and found 241 colonies grew on the key ...

A new study out of the United Kingdom suggests that we're all walking around with something dirty in our pocket or purse: our ...

Historical Perspective Published: May 1999 A unifying concept: the history of cell theory Paolo Mazzarello Nature Cell Biology 1, E13–E15 (1999) Cite this article ...

A specially designed microbe cuts dietary methylmercury levels in pregnant mice, signaling the potential for a new tool for ...

Notorious for their inability to break down in the environment, PFAS are linked to several kinds of cancers and other serious ...

Bacterial structural biology is a scientific discipline that concerns the structure of bacterial macromolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids. Such studies are used to understand the ...

Mitochondria have primarily been known as the energy-producing components of cells. But scientists are increasingly ...

This article focuses on a microsized microbial solar cell (MSC) that can produce sustainable energy through photosynthetic reactions of cyanobacteria Synechocystis PCC 6803 in the anode. The MSC has ...

Using state-of-the-art microscopy techniques, the research shows how cells capture Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria through small protrusions of their membrane, in which the protein ...