Stanford scientists discovered that a harmless skin bacterium triggers a powerful immune response. By tweaking a bacterial ...

Lakes, natural and man-made, provide water, food and habitats for wildlife, as well as supporting local economies. Around the world, though, there’s a growing threat to lakes: toxic bacteria which ...

By employing a novel technique to examine how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have found that gut bacteria can ...

Sequencing bacterial genomes allows scientists to study bacterial diversity, immunity, and the human microbiome, but it ...

It's important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria in ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce.

From February 2022 to February 2023, they collected (using cotton swabs) and genetically sequenced bacterial samples from six ...

Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the ...

The manuscript addresses the 3D chromatin architecture in monocytes from patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis and its relationship to enhanced transcription of innate immune genes. While the ...

Delivering drugs to specific, hard-to-reach areas in the human body remains a challenge in drug development. Typically, drug molecules administered via pills or injections circulate randomly through ...