Scientists have discovered that bacteria living inside tumors can produce a molecule that fights cancer and enhances ...

Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today—knowing ...

An international team of scientists discovered that bacteria living inside tumors produce molecules that can fight cancer ...

A NASA clean-room bacterium can enter dormancy to escape sterilization, raising concerns about microbes hitchhiking to Mars.

University of Warwick research demonstrates how to engineer "cell factories" that last longer and produce more chemicals, ...

The microbiome encompasses all the microorganisms and viruses that reside in a particular environment in the body.  Recent ...

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This ...

For patients with inflammatory bowel disease, antibiotics can be a double-edged sword. The broad-spectrum drugs often ...

A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday ...

From the mitochondria that power our cells to the bacteria in our gut, we live in constant collaboration ... factors that are ...

What causes us to sleep? The answer may lie not only in our brains, but in their complex interplay with the microorganisms ...

AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.