Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...

Long dismissed as featureless, disorganized sacks, bacteria are now revealing a multitude of elegant internal structures. Ewen Callaway investigates a new field in cell biology. Nearly a decade ago ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

Bacteria may seem like pretty simple lifeforms, but their ingenuity keeps surprising scientists. The latest example is a species called Geobacter sulfurreducens, which has now been found to survive ...

The language of protein translation contains synonyms. Each three-nucleotide sequence on a strand of messenger RNA is called a codon and corresponds to the instruction to add a particular amino acid ...

"Bacteria, for example, decompose organic material that, among other things, provides the majority of nitrogen needed by the plants we eat," Horner-Devine says. "So understanding the distribution and ...

The number of resistant strains has increased, partly due to the misuse of antibiotics. This has resulted in more infections that are difficult to control. MRSA is methicillin-resistant staphylococcus ...

Synlogic CEO Aoife Brennan speaking at SynBioBeta. The company has engineered bacteria that shrink cancer tumors in mice. With trials underway to bring this immunotherapy solution to the treatment ...

Bacteria can be engineered to perform various tasks. For example bacteria has been engineered to make valuable proteins for medical use, and to make enzymes that are used to help degrade toxic ...