Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology—Agrobacterium tumefaciens—to transfer its DNA ...

Building on work by Hiroyuki Osada’s group, which reported that the antibiotic hygromycin B induced fungal metabolites in one ...

Microbiology: Bacterial classification and diversity; Microbial Ecology - microbes in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems; Microbial interactions; Viruses - structure and classification ...

Abstract: There is a rising demand to close the gap between biology and computer science in high school STEM education. Biology is often taught with a textbook and a microscope. To help students ...

Traditional methods for early detection of skin cancers still rely on visual inspection and biopsy of excised tissue samples, a time consuming and potentially imprecise process. A French team at Saint ...

Department of Pediatrics, Jinhua Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Jinhua, China Introduction: Recurrent protracted bacterial bronchitis (RPBB) is a significant risk factor for bronchiectasis ...

The development of nanofertilizers has gained significant attention for their potential to enhance nutrient delivery to plants while mitigating the environmental impact of intensive agriculture. In ...

Soil taxonomic systems seek to express pedogenic processes in their classes by choosing attributes or differential characteristics to identify classes at different categorical or hierarchical levels.

Introduction: Pristine soil, ornithogenic soil, intertidal sediment, and marine sediment represent four of typical habitats in the Fildes region, maritime Antarctica. However, information on bacterial ...

A new species of bacteria that functions like electrical wiring has recently been discovered on a brackish beach in Oregon. The species was named Candidatus Electrothrix yaqonensis in honor of the ...