Plastics are deeply woven into modern life, valued for their strength, clarity, flexibility, and affordability. However, the production and disposal of these materials pose serious environmental ...

Bacteria get invaded by viruses called phages.Scientists are studying how bacteria use CRISPR to defend themselves from phages, which ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

A recently identified bacterial protein structure is contributing to the design of novel anticancer drug delivery systems.

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

The Gelman plume has been contaminating the groundwater of Scio Township and Ann Arbor since the 1960s with possible ...

At the University of Michigan, researchers are working to remove harmful contaminants from drinking water using bacteria.

Some notoriously difficult to treat infections may not be as resistant to antibiotics as has been thought, according to new research using a microfluidic device that more closely duplicates the fluid ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

A study of a woman who died in 2024 as the oldest person on Earth attempts to untangle the factors that enable some people to ...

When thinking about the Arctic, images of snow, ice—maybe even a polar bear—likely come to mind. Located at the northernmost ...

Scientists in South Korea have engineered tiny bacterial cells that are churning out plastic. The plastics produced by the modified Escherichia coli ( E. coli) bacteria are known as polyester amides ...