A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin ...

Kendall Square has become a hub of biotech innovation and a popular location for up and coming life sciences firms. Now, a ...

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

The plan aimed to reduce an estimated 125,000 salmonella infections from chicken and 43,000 from turkey each year, according ...

Genetic findings reveal how early exposure to a DNA-damaging toxin from gut bacteria may contribute to the global rise in ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.

Biodegradation is an important natural process during oil spill cleanup. A new study revealed that using spill treating agents does not negatively impact naturally occurring biodegradation.

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

By tagging phages with fluorescent markers, researchers tracked their every move. They found that antibiotics can trigger sudden "viral blooms," where phages rapidly multiply and spread, dramatically ...