The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby ...

Bacteria like A. borkumensis are important for degrading oil pollution, so these findings are of significant interest.

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby accelerating the elimination of ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Colorado Boulder used a gene-silencing tool and a large ...

This file photo shows Sun Yuanxia looking at sugar in a lab at the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology in north ...

These simulations showed that bacteria could still survive and generate electricity by using the surrounding surface to ...

An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm ...

Researchers showed that some spinach defensins can confer similar protection to citrus and potatoes -- and possibly other crops. The effects show significant progress toward recovering yield and ...

A new article titled Self-Documenting Plasmids has been published in Trends in Biotechnology, introducing a breakthrough technology that could redefine the way plasmids are tracked, verified, and ...

"Antimicrobial resistance gets little media attention, but the statistics around the issue are startling," writes John Conrad ...

Princeton Engineering Innovation Research Grants support bold new ideas tackling critical problems like antibiotic resistance ...

Scientists have identified a new species of bacteria, Candidatus Electrothrix yaqonensis, which can conduct electricity. The ...