Marine bacteria control how much CO2 is stored in the oceans, by swimming after and degrading sinking particles that would otherwise remain stored in the ocean for millennia. Researchers have ...

At baseball stadiums, holiday cookouts, and in the dorm rooms of broke college students everywhere, hot dogs have become a ...

E. coli inhabit the human gut and perform essential functions, such as making vitamins K and B12 and repelling disease causing bacteria. This story appears in the January 2020 issue of National ...

A research team at the University of Galway has created a new way to 4D bioprint tissues that can change shape in a controlled way—just like real tissues do as they form. This discovery brings ...

Scientists develop fully biobased, 4D-printable shape memory polymers from plant-derived acrylates, enabling tunable, ...

Scientists at the University of Galway have developed a new way of 4D bioprinting tissue cells that can change shape, bringing us a step closer to manufacturing organs for humans. The researchers ...

In laboratories, bacteria are often kept in pure culture. In the natural environment, however, they live together in complex and well-structured bacterial communities. These play a major role in the ...

Biophysical models have also been developed which show that while bacteria cell membranes are too stiff ... where 3D printed materials are programmed to change shape after being implanted. 4D printed ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers and fashion brand Ministry of Supply have produced a "4D-knit dress", using heat-activated yarn that allows its shape and fit to be altered in an ...