By employing a novel technique to examine how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have found that gut bacteria can ...

Sequencing bacterial genomes allows scientists to study bacterial diversity, immunity, and the human microbiome, but it ...

Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

Methylmercury is an extremely toxic compound, and unfortunately it's often present in the fish that we eat. Scientists are ...

They have successfully killed the insect behind the greening disease in the lab, but the real test will come over the next ...

They have successfully killed the insect behind the greening disease in the lab, but the real test will come over the next ...

Scientists from Australia have successfully bioengineered genetically modified fruit flies and zebrafish capable of absorbing ...

Over 200 environmental and farmer groups warn that Poland's deregulation proposal ignores critical questions ...

Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to our physiology – in health and disease.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are living organisms—primarily plants and animals—whose genetic material has been ...

Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the ...

In a shift away from GMOS, aka genetically modified organisms, important research is continuing in gene editing, sometimes ...