Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce ...

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 ...

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, ...

Researchers at MIT and Tulane found that the gene element Tn916 can attach to many specific spots in the DNA of the bacteria Bacillus subtilis Most Tn916 insertions occur in a few favored locations, ...

Chinese scientists have discovered a new microbe. A new strain of bacteria, niallia tiangongensis, was found on Tiangong. The microbe shows remarkable adaptation to extreme space environments.

Of course, you might be concerned about bacteria and viruses that can make you sick. But rest assured, the vast majority of microorganisms in the environment are not harmful, and many are actually ...

The authors advance this technique by integrating peptide ligation technology and nanobody-based antibody mimetics - cost-effective and scalable alternatives to conventional antibodies - into a ...

Most biochemistry labs that study DNA isolate it within a water-based ... then conduct high-tech imaging. The technology has been around for 25 years, and Marko was one of the first researchers ...

This knowledge can help to develop improved therapies. One technology that helps to analyze bacterial diversity is single-cell transcriptomics. It uses small messenger molecules (mRNA) to ...