Inspired by sea sponges, researchers created living micro-lenses from bacteria that may improve medical and industrial ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...

Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, these signals can only be detected by looking at the cells under a microscope ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

To verify a defence system, scientists can select a candidate, insert the genes into a standard strain of laboratory bacteria and test whether they allow the microbes to resist phages that they ...

A study published in Nature Chemistry by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University shows how common ...

The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually ...

The United States can no longer keep tabs on drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other infections, scientists said.

A new study shows how common gut bacteria can metabolize certain oral medications that target cellular receptors called GPCRs, potentially rendering these important drugs less effective.

Researchers have found that gut bacteria can interfere with the effectiveness of over 400 commonly used medications that ...

A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce ...