Hold out your hands, palms up, and move them so they are on top of each other. With a little experimentation—and perhaps a ...

The bacteria use a natural molecule called naphthoquinone. This acts like a tiny shuttle for electrons inside the cell.

Since the discovery of penicillin nearly a century ago, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a stealthy, pervasive enemy ...

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS / Bill Tompkins/Getty Images ... provides us with energy—may have originated from ancient bacteria cells that entered another ancient prokaryote.

EPFL researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which ...

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

John Glass, PhD is a synthetic biologist at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Glass was part of the team that created the first bacterial cell with a chemically synthesized genome. View Full Profile.