Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide ...

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

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, ...

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

Using a new method to study how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have discovered that gut bacteria can alter molecular signatures in the brain.

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

By combining MERFISH imaging with expansion microscopy, researchers have unlocked a new way to study bacteria at the ...

Landmark single-cell dataset of one billion cells will be used to train new AI models to advance understanding of cellular ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism ...