The surprising discovery of entities smaller than viruses raises profound questions about what life is and how it got started ...

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When this bacteria is present in the water, its contaminants suppress its oxygen, making it a fatal habitat for its in-water and waterfront residents and visitors. Red tide can have debilitating ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, ...

Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...