Antibiotics are supposed to wipe out bacteria, yet the drugs can sometimes hand microbes an unexpected advantage.

A dangerous, often deadly, type of bacteria that lives in soil and water has been released from a high-security laboratory at the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Louisiana. Officials ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants of the dangerous pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. Viruses of ...

The symposium is divided into two parts – an oral presentation and a poster presentation ... focused on what’s called lasso peptides — natural products found in bacteria. Her hope is that her research ...

Based on a model study with plastic in artificial seawater in the lab, Goudriaan calculated that bacteria can break down about one percent of the fed plastic per year into CO 2 and other harmless ...

"One of the beautiful things about it is how easy it is to make, merely needing a little motion, a few nutrients and bacteria." A study published this week in Nature Communications details the lab ...

“Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all life on earth, an international group of leading scientists have warned in ...

The NFL, in collaboration with the NFLPA, through their respective appointed biomechanical experts, coordinated extensive laboratory research to evaluate which helmets best reduce head impact ...

Pipettes are the most frequently used tools in the laboratory and therefore prone to contamination. In this study, Sartorius demonstrate that autoclaving the pipette is the most efficient method to ...

If mirror bacteria were to escape from the lab, there would be nothing to prevent them from establishing themselves in the wild and threatening plants, animals, and humans with lethal infections.

There has been much theoretical debate about whether and how organisms can evolve to become better at evolving, but now a team of researchers has made it happen in a lab – and documented almost ...

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