In a laboratory in Ulsan, South Korea, scientists have quietly pulled off what might become one of the most important ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

The world urgently needs new antibiotics. In 2019 alone, antibiotic-resistant bacteria killed more than 4.5 million people ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

Trying to predict how bacteria will spread is like predicting the flight of a leaf in a windstorm—it's a complicated and ...

Artificial bacterial transformation is a laboratory technique scientists use to introduce foreign DNA into bacterial cells. There are two main methods by which this is achieved: Gram positive and Gram ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

Bacterial infections can disrupt this balance, leading to diarrhea. Yet, it was unclear which cells were mainly affected ... efficacy of these strategies in real-world applications.

The combination of enzymatic biofuel cell power generation, aptamer-based bacterial recognition ... The team also tested the system using real seawater samples, demonstrating that it could accurately ...