A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements ...

Bacteria often experience nutrient limitation. While the exponential and stationary growth phases have been characterized in ...

Can artificial intelligence function as a partner in scientific discovery, capable of generating novel, testable hypotheses ...

Research on quercetin and omega-3-loaded LHNs reveals their potential in reducing biofilm formation and supporting skin cell ...

A bacterial enzyme could make it possible to produce the plastic building block ethylene without the emission of CO₂.

Few locations are quite as picturesque as Cannes, renowned for its glamorous international film ...

Caltech researchers have reintroduced a classic technique to image the formation and growth of individual cells that make up biofilms, sticky masses of millions of cells that are often responsible for ...

Life just got more difficult for those fighting antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Researchers at McGill University have ...

Caltech researchers have reintroduced a classic technique to image the formation and growth of individual cells that make up biofilms, sticky masses ...

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, ...

A Jacobs School researcher is focused on learning more about how tight junctions form naturally — and how their breakdown can lead to disease.

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This challenges the idea that sleep is solely brain-driven, instead suggesting it ...