Scientists have uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide spectrum of antibiotics along ...

A bacterial cellulose bandage significantly improves plant recovery and regeneration, offering new agricultural benefits.

Researchers say study provides sufficient rationale to further explore the therapeutic uses of SSRIs during infection.

A team of microbiologists, chemists and pharmaceutical specialists at Shandong University, Guangzhou Medical University, ...

Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria in ...

A study found that hospital sink drains harbor dangerous bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant strains. Despite thorough ...

Hundreds of different species of microbes live, laugh, and love in your gut. In the future, one of these might serve a new function: microscopic in-house pharmacist.

The crucial drugs can have unintended consequences. Innovative therapies could shield the microbiome from their effects.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing ...

Biologists converted gut bacteria into miniature protein factories that manufacture and release a sustained flow of targeted proteins inside the lower intestines. This technique solves one of the ...