Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has announced that a new antibiotic, zosurabalpin, is progressing to phase 3 testing.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have addressed a longstanding challenge in CRISPR ...

Department of Cell Toxicology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Environmental Toxicology, Department of Geosciences, 72076 ...

Marine bacteria control how much CO2 is stored in the oceans, by swimming after and degrading sinking particles that would otherwise remain stored in the ocean for millennia. Researchers have ...

Purification of nucleic acids from a low quantity of bacterial cells in minute volume is important in many clinical and biological applications. We developed a novel microfluidic liquid phase nucleic ...

aClinic of Respiratory Medicine and Pulmonary Cell Research, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland bDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, ...