A new family of enzymes enables precise cuts in single-stranded DNA, offering powerful new tools for genetic engineering and ...

Researchers suggest the bacteria could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, acting as sensors to help farmers ...

Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, ...

Understanding how bacteria form communities on surfaces, including biofilms, has significant implications for both health and ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Researchers are determining how mechanosensor proteins in bacteria function to identify suitable conditions for establishing ...

coli bacteria. In both cases, vaccination or the harmless bacteria ... possible to produce a highly effective salmonella-competitor strain with the help of genetic engineering. However, this can also ...

Registration continues for HudsonAlpha’s summer student programs in Dothan. There will be two programs offered this summer — ...

Christopher Voigt, head of MIT's Department of Biological Engineering and senior ... reporting molecules were linked to genetic circuits that detect nearby bacteria, but this approach could ...