The $5,000 equipment grant from the Education Foundation of Kennebunk and Arundel has transformed how students learn ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

Research on the gut microbiome has focused mainly on bacteria, but bacteriophages and fungi play critical roles as well, with significant influences on health and disease.

A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

One way microplastics fuel antibiotic resistance is by acting as “hotspots” for bacteria to interact and exchange genes.

High-end science technology, like polymerase chain reaction testing equipment, is essential to students' learning, science ...