In A Nutshell Living detectors: Researchers modified E. coli bacteria to light up when they sense acetic acid, the chemical ...

Antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs design to kill them - is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Weightlessness has the potential to enhance a regular virus and increase its ability to kill stubborn bacteria. In an ...

A team of researchers at UCLA has reported an unexpected twist in a condition long treated as a crystal chemistry problem. In samples of the most common kidney stone, they found bacteria living inside ...

Space-based experiments show that microgravity-induced mutations in bacteriophages may improve their ability to target antibiotic-resistant bacteria on Earth.

New research shows that the gene PTPN2 helps regulate gut bacteria and plays a key role in protecting the body from excessive inflammation. Scientists at the, Riverside, are uncovering how a single ge ...

Microbial activity underpins numerous processes in natural, industrial and clinical systems. Isothermal calorimetry has emerged as a sensitive, non-invasive technique to quantify the metabolic heat ...

Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, according to a new study.

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have completed a spaceflight biology investigation aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that reveals how microgravity fundamentally ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Do they become “snowbirds” and relocate to warmer climates until spring? Do they hibernate like bears? Or do they continue to do the jobs they do so well, waiting for spring and fresh plantings to ...