Tag: Microbiology

Gene product catalyzes the production of glycerol, helping algae to survive in an extreme environmentCredit: Rachael Morgan-Kiss Glycerol, used in ...

Credit: Mary Zhu A team including Wei Liu, assistant professor in ASU's School of Molecular Sciences (SMS) and the Biodesign ...

Rutgers study suggests pollutant's toxicity could be decreasedCredit: Donna E. Fennell Bacteria that can help defuse highly toxic dioxin in ...

NIST researchers find a new (mathematical) twist to improve DNA origamiCredit: NIST DNA is not only the blueprint of life, ...

Credit: Photo: Belinda Ferrari In their first follow-up to a high-profile 2017 study which showed microbes in Antarctica have a ...

Shipwreck harbors a rich spatially structured microbial communityCredit: John McCord, Coastal Studies Institute Shipwrecks act as artificial reefs and provide ...

Some bacteria become increasingly infectious when they have to move from cell to cell in order to surviveCredit: © Patrick ...

One-of-a-kind video shows how bacterium annihilates the body's immune cells.Credit: NTNU Centre for Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR) The tuberculosis bacterium ...

Credit: Professor Mark Schembri There is new hope for approximately 700,000 people who die each year from antibiotic resistant infections, ...

Bishop Peder Winstrup of Lund, Sweden passed away in the winter of 1679 at the age of 74 and was ...

Researchers to sequence and assemble genome of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lini, a highly destructive fungal parasite infecting flaxCredit: Peter the ...

By tinkering with some of life's oldest components, a group of astrobiologists hopes to find clues about how life emerged. ...

Credit: John Innes Centre Researchers have shed fresh light on the evolution and function of the shapes we see in ...

Credit: IRB Barcelona The system that regulates cellular calcium levels duplicated, generating two non-equivalent systems, some one billion years ago ...