A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...

Inspired by sea sponges, researchers created living micro-lenses from bacteria that may improve medical and industrial ...

Bacteria are often cast as the microbial villains of our food system, blamed for spoilage and sickness. But behind the scenes ...

The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually ...

A study published in Nature Chemistry by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University shows how common ...

To verify a defence system, scientists can select a candidate, insert the genes into a standard strain of laboratory bacteria and test whether they allow the microbes to resist phages that they ...

Applications range from precision medicine and resilient agriculture to biosensors for national security and biobased ...