A small but mighty microbe that can safely extract the rare earth and other critical elements for building everything from ...

Two groups involving researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences are among nine teams to have ...

AI will deliver transformative therapies at an exponential scale, addressing the complexities of biology that traditional ...

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An Endolith technician swirls a flask containing a starter culture of the company’s proprietary microbes. The amber color ...

A new study shows that planting too much genetically modified corn designed to fight off a tough insect -- the corn rootworm -- especially in the eastern U.S. Corn Belt states may be causing more harm ...

Antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) “superbugs” contribute to more than 4.5 million deaths globally per year and threaten to make ...

From using infants gut bacteria to protect adults from cancer, to growing rice on the ocean's surface and non-browning ...

In the microscopic world, bacteria face a similar scenario. For every bacterium out there—good and bad—there ... implications for medicine and biotechnology. "Revealing the mechanism of ...

At least that’s what a new crop of biotech startups, armed with carbon-guzzling bacteria and plenty of capital, are hoping to convince us. Their claims sound too good to be true: They say they ...

“We were the first to demonstrate that when you deliver CRISPR to bacteria and cut the bacteria’s ... compared starting a biotech company to a hunt. “A good hunter reads the signs and follows the ...