Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth's atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial ...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial evolution over billions of years – using machine ...

percent of 20 different smartwatch wristbands tested were contaminated with bacteria capable of causing disease.

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The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssynbio.4c00612. Time-lapse video of cells with LAA-LAA-Osc in a ...

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is an imbalance in the bacteria that inhabit the vagina. It affects nearly one third of women globally, which makes it the most common vaginal disorder. It is associated ...

Scientists have discovered a protein that enables bacteria to shut down into dormant spores under extreme conditions. The process, which enables the bacteria to become practically indestructible ...

The discovery sheds light on how certain bacteria -- including strains that cause food poisoning and anthrax -- form spores for survival. Scientists have discovered a protein that enables bacteria ...

Biology might ultimately provide a solution, however. Researchers have identified bacteria that evolved the ability to digest some plastics. And improvements in our ability to design proteins have ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens.

Cancer researchers in China who have been experimenting with bacteria may have cracked the deadliest puzzle hindering treatment of the disease: how to eliminate cancers while evading human immune ...