Now, a team of scientists in Japan may start turning the tide. They’ve hijacked the metabolism of a common bacterium, ...

Short peptides can self-assemble into net-like structures that kill bacteria. Now, researchers have discovered how to control ...

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

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

An imbalance in the gut microbiome, the group of bacteria and other microbes in the digestive tract, may drive chronic SCD ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

Notably, the Imperial researchers also tried various LLMs not specifically designed for scientific reasoning. These included ...

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

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

A new study shows that bacterial cell wall molecules, specifically peptidoglycan, are present in the brain and fluctuate with ...

Scientists have engineered Salmonella bacteria to self-destruct inside tumors, releasing signals that spark powerful immune ...

The review highlights how the gut microbiome (the collection of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live in the digestive system) can affect epigenetics, the process that turns genes on or off without ...