Engineers and biologists at Dartmouth College have found that, just like word order affects meaning in a sentence, the ...

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

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 ...

Given that microbes helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar ...

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

An AI model trained on large amounts of genetic data can predict whether bacteria will become antibiotic-resistant. The new study shows that antibiotic resistance is more easily transmitted between ...

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

Ubiquinone, a metabolite critical to generating energy in cells, has long been thought to be the only mitochondrial electron transport chain carrier in mammals. Although other electron transporters ...

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

PNNL chemical engineer Josh Elmore loads samples into a scientific instrument to measure how well a specific bacteria can convert sugars ... s capacity for long-term carbon storage. Unlike genetic ...