Intestinal bacteria are important for human health as they help digest food and regulate immune function. Thus, in recent ...

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than ...

The viruses that kill bacteria may be our best bet against antibiotic resistance — if we can understand how they win.

Researchers have mapped how microbes underpin our food systems—and how we can stop their decline. Published in Frontiers in ...

About 80% of people have the fungus Candida albicans in their gut. Although most of the time it persists unnoticed for years ...

A desert region in northern Mexico sparked the imagination of Prof. Joel Stavans, a physicist who studies the physics of ...