The star of the story is saarvienin A, a brand-new glycopeptide antibiotic produced by an unusual strain of Amycolatopsis, a ...

The microbe developed in a cabin and its discovery could have important implications for the future of space travel.

Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme ...

Cell membrane chromatography (CMC) technology was used by researchers in screening efficacy and antibacterial ability of ...

Ask scientists which gene-editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they'd probably describe a system that's ...

To fight off viral and bacterial invaders, immune cells known as lymphocytes generate antibodies that specifically recognize ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.

Malaria continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, with over 200 million cases and approximately ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

The gene editor -- called evoCAST -- goes a long way toward solving a problem that has confounded the development of gene therapies from the field's beginnings: How to add long stretches of DNA to ...