From new cancer therapies to innovative military health care and technology, Harvard's cutting-edge projects are in jeopardy ...

Found in a mudflat off the coast of Oregon, this organism’s electricity-conducting abilities could make it ideal for ...

In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is ...

A new study on Lyme disease sheds light on the persistence of symptoms; another new study points to an antibiotic that may be ...

Researchers are developing the biomaterial as a more environmentally friendly alternative to concrete, but any wide-scale use ...

A Kobe University team was able to edit the DNA of Lactobacillus strains directly without a template from other organisms. This technique is indistinguishable from natural variation and enabled the ...

Warming temperatures can ramp up the activity of methane-producing bacteria in wetland soils, adding to methane emissions.

Mars, today a cold, irradiated, and dry world, once had a much warmer and wetter environment. The planet was covered by lakes ...

Bacterial secondary metabolites represent a vast arsenal of bioactive compounds with the potential to combat antimicrobial ...

Having higher numbers of particular gut microbes might put you at a higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), a new ...