The study showed that exposure to biopesticide fungi might lead to the evolution of resistance, just as with synthetic pesticides, and builds on previous findings that indicated new approaches are ...

Project title: “Evolution of Polar Cell Wall Growth Across Bacterial Clades” What’s the idea?

Large-scale comparison of gene families across 1154 Saccharomycotina genomes revealed that gene gains and losses drive yeast ...

GDA constitutes an important adaptive mechanism in bacteria, and resistance to several ... and describe how they can facilitate adaptive evolution in response to toxic drugs.

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

Biologist Vidya Rajan decodes the science and history behind rubber, a substance that forms the basis of modern life ...

Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5' review: director Raoul Peck shows how we're living in Orwellian times, where Trump and other autocrats ...

Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on the distribution and drug resistance of Gram-negative bacteria in ICU samples collected ... The ICU continues to serve as a focal point for the ...

Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist in Brazil, spent decades looking for bacteria in the soil that could act like fertilizer, boosting farmers' harvests. But she faced a lot of skepticism. "When I ...

A team at the University of Tokyo has developed a system to control and accelerate the evolution of changes in bacterial genome structure, targeting small "jumping genes," or DNA sequences known as ...

The genome structure—how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism—is fundamental to the processes and functions of organisms. A team at the University of Tokyo has developed a ...