Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An international team of four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, ...

The unusual molecular makeup of Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease, may hold clues for understanding and treating the tick-borne disease.

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

Five gene clusters have been integrated into the bacterium Vibrio natriegens to engineer a strain that can remediate five ...

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique ...

OSU study links gut bacteria to autoimmune disease progression, focusing on T cell behavior in rheumatoid arthritis.

The numbers for bowel cancer, the third-most-common type worldwide, are rising particularly fast (see chart). Compared with ...

Now, researchers have developed a building material made of mycelium—the tubular, branching filaments found in most fungi—and bacteria cells. As detailed in a study published last week in the ...

comparison of multiple genes in different tissues under heatwaves and bacterial infection stress (PDF) High expression genes of different cell types; the relative expression of marker genes in cells; ...

"If it's an 'empty road,' why doesn't the mother's womb cells take the empty road? What we found is that it is not an empty road—the scar is full of collagen." The collagen from the scar tissue ...

State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Key Laboratory of Yangtze Water Environment, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, ...

While this discharge does contain some bacteria, it is also mixed up with mucus, tears and old skin cells. During the day, this discharge is simply blinked away through tears. But at night ...