Microbiology

While some microbes can make people sick or spoil food, others are critical for survival. These tiny organisms can also be engineered to make specific molecules. Researchers reporting in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering have rewired one such microbe to help tackle greenhouse gases in the atmo...

Tadayasu Sawaki has just enrolled in an agricultural university in Tokyo with his longtime friend Kei Yuuki. Although not known outside a close circle of friends and family, Tadayasu has the unique ability to see and communicate with microbes, which appear larger and look different to him than they ...

Survey of bacteria living inside household and laboratory appliances finds a robust ecosystem.

Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes have seemed like an open book. By reading and decoding our chromosomes as linear strings of letters, like sentences in a novel, we can identify the genes in our genome and learn why changes in a gene's code affect health.

Structural evidence reveals key steps during spliceosome disassembly.

The antimicrobial potential of CRISPR-Cas systems is promising, yet how to best design or implement CRISPR nucleases remains poorly understood. An international team led by the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg has now addressed this knowledge gap.

Molecules often have a structural asymmetry called chirality, which means they can appear in alternative, mirror-image versions akin to the left and right versions of human hands. One of the great mysteries about the origins of life on Earth is that virtually all of the fundamental molecules of biol...

Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on their species but on the roles they play.

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  Clostridioides difficile   is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea globally. Its spores have been implicated in the prevalence of   C. difficile   infection due to their resistance and transmission ability between surfaces. Currently, dis...

AUSTIN, Texas — Scientists have discovered that bacteria can create something like memories about when to form strategies that can cause dangerous

Here’s why the CDC is so concerned about deadly flesh-eating bacteria and ways to avoid being infected

The ability to sense mechanical stimuli, like touch or blood pressure, is essential to physiological processes in humans and across the animal kingdom. In a new study, Scripps Research scientists show how the sensory ion channel PIEZO1 changes shape in response to mechanical stimuli, revealing criti...

Walker and Hoyles highlight selected myths and misconceptions in the human microbiota literature.

Antibiotic resistance is a risk for human and pig health. Here, the authors profile the antibiotic resistome of the pig lower respiratory tract and evaluate potential mobile genetic elements mediating antibiotic resistance gene transfer.

Dan Wilson returns to TWiV to debunk vaccine misinformation by RFK Jr. during his recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience.

The ability to turn genes on or off is fundamental to the diversity we see in cells, in individuals, and even in terms of health and disease. This process, known as gene transcription, involves converting the information stored in our DNA into a "carbon copy" called RNA.

An engineered minimal cell evolves to escape the negative consequences of genome streamlining.

Despite being densely packed to fit into the nucleus, chromosomes storing our genetic information are always in motion. This allows specific regions to come into contact and thereby activate a gene. A group of scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Princeton Universi...