The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of ...

“Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all life on earth, an international group of leading scientists have warned in a new report. All building-block molecules of life like DNA, proteins and ...

A major new review of human studies finds consistent differences in gut bacterial communities between people with mild ...

Space-based experiments show that microgravity-induced mutations in bacteriophages may improve their ability to target ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

As synthetic biologists, we have spent the last few decades in awe of the breakthroughs in the field. In the last fifteen years, synthetic biologists have stored books, images, and even videos in DNA, ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

Research suggests that certain chemicals could negatively impact the microbiome.

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

New research studies have demonstrated that bacteria are able to retain 'memories' of temporary, short changes to their cells and environments. These memories are not related to changes in the genetic ...

Tuberculosis bacteria - one of the dangerous bugs that is studied in labs - KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Laboratory leaks and accidents have risen 50 per cent in Britain since Covid-19 emerged, ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the oldest evidence of these diseases by more than 3,000 years. The ancient ...