A research group in Korea has discovered a novel natural antimicrobial peptide, "Hirunipin-2," from the salivary glands of ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

A protein that gives fleas their bounce has been used to boot out bacteria cells, with lab results demonstrating the material ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

Scientists are probing woolly mammoth and Neanderthal genetic codes for new compounds as today’s drugs lose potency.

This is one of the species that causes center rot in onions, which the lab was in the middle of investigating as part of an ...

One dataset used in the study looked at tree species abundance in the United States. Virginia’s forests, among the nation’s ...

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained ...

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Schematic illustration of EBFCs-based self-powered biosensor ... Instead, the researchers used aptamers—short strands of DNA that fold into specific shapes and bind to bacterial surface proteins with ...

Research now reveals how two of these fatty acids, propionate and butyrate, act as molecular messengers between our diet, gut bacteria, and the very packaging of our DNA. Microbial metabolism ...