Some early-onset colorectal cancers may be caused by exposure to a bacterial toxin within the first 10 years of life, according to a study published April 23 in Nature. An international research team, ...

An international team has identified a potential microbial culprit behind the alarming rise in early-onset colorectal cancer: a bacterial toxin called colibactin. Scientists report that exposure to ...

The Pre-College Program in Computational Biology offers comprehensive training in both state-of-the-art laboratory techniques for generating biological data and the computational methods necessary to ...

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumonia, and its effect on ...

Rising temperatures could tip the scale in an underground battle that has raged for millennia. In the soils of Earth's ...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

I was at a cancer meeting in Brisbane when the question about the culture of a community occurred to me. The meeting was well ...

2) To phenotypically characterize multi-drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, proteus species, Citrobacter species, Salmonella and Shigella isolated ...

Bananas are one of the most consumed agricultural products in the country. In fact, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) ...

Researchers are almost ready to start testing a methane-eating bacteria that could help cut emissions from landfills.

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 ...

Amid a surge in drug-resistant bacteria, researchers believe they have discovered a new class of antibiotics, three decades since the last one came to market.