Basic computing elements created in bacteria Date: July 9, 2015 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary: Researchers unveil a series of sensors, memory switches, and circuits that ...

Leiden researchers have discovered an enzyme that helps bacteria feed on everyday plastics. This common enzyme could play a ...

Mosquito bites are much more than just a red and itchy summertime nuisance. The diseases that they carry are notoriously ...

Moreover, it can be applied to any kind of bacteria, including friendly bacteria that are vital to many of our body's systems." Beyond advancing basic research, the new method might help develop ways ...

Bacteria can store extra resources for the lean times. It's a bit like keeping a piggy bank or carrying a backup battery pack. One important reserve is known as cyanophycin granules, which were ...

For the first time, a scientific study has succeeded in using live microbes to produce medicine — by digesting and fermenting waste ...

Viruses vastly outnumber bacteria (SN: 1/11/14, p.18) and could skew the microbe-to-human cell ratio upwards, says Julie Segre, a geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute in ...

New research by the University of Oslo provides evidence that the "protocells" that formed around 3.8 billion years ago, before bacteria and single-celled organisms, could have had specialized ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Bacteria can move up to 14.5 times faster by swimming in fluid halos formed around yeast cells or inert objects, enabling rapid spread across otherwise dry surfaces.