The specific research of the Plummer-Medeiros lab focuses on how proteins in the membrane interact with lipids. This ...

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

Viruses are so simple in their structure, they may not even qualify as living things. Yet, they are ruthless in their robotic ...

Bacterial styrene oxidase isomerase has been known to science for more than three decades, but its mechanism of action has ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

Some eukaryotes consist of a single cell; but most single-celled creatures are made of simpler cells which lack obvious ...

University of Toronto researchers have made the first discovery of a virus that infects Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria ...

Legionella bacteria can contaminate many water sources, even windshield wiper fluid, and if inhaled as aerosols in ...

Last month, in a tiny room in Manchester, UK, a niche group of biology scientists gathered to discuss if they needed to restrict research in an emerging technology that might affect humans and ...

Magnetically guided microrobots coated with bacteriophages penetrate and dismantle bacterial biofilms, achieving targeted ...

It is well established that gut microbiome composition plays a pivotal role in human health – yet the precise connections are ...