Scientists in South Korea have engineered tiny bacterial cells that are churning out plastic. The plastics produced by the ...

Biology might ultimately provide a solution, however. Researchers have identified bacteria that evolved the ability to digest ...

B. subtilis spores are stable across a wide temperature range, which reduces the cost of storage and transportation.

Trying to predict how bacteria will spread is like predicting the flight of a leaf in a windstorm—it's a complicated and ...

A new soda pop containing a mixture of prebiotics to encourage bacterial diversity is now available. Currently, there is no ...

This trick allows the bacteria to make themselves at home in the host cell and avoid falling prey to the immune system. Working together with the University of Cologne structural biologists led by ...

Bacteria have mostly been portrayed as villains that make us sick, but the Human Microbiome Project showed that we share our ...

and subsequently injects its DNA into the bacterial cell’s cytoplasm (Figure 1A). The bacteriophage then takes over the host’s cellular machinery to replicate its genetic material and the protein ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

A natural antibacterial molecule shows clinical promise. Its unusual binding site is on an excellent target: ...