Plastic trash has reached the world's most remote locations, from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the summit of Everest.

To model bacterial life, Thornburg and his colleagues turned to one of its simplest examples: a bacterial cell with a ...

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve ...

Researchers have found a metabolite in Burmese pythons that suppresses appetite in mice without some of GLP-1's side effects. And humans make it, too.

Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of ...

Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of ...

While you may not frequently visit humid environments, such as rainforests, the animal life in damp locations may look a bit ...

Old PET plastic packaging gets a second life through genetically engineered bacteria – as L-DOPA for Parkinson's patients.

Whether it’s enjoying a podcast, listening to music or chatting on the phone, many of us spend hours a day using our ...

For people living in the environs of the current meningitis outbreak, it is an obvious question to ask, but the answer is not simple. The problem lies in whether the bacterium is truly airborne, and ...

Variant identified in Kent can cause long-term complications and prove fatal if not caught early with antibiotics ...

Scientists discover immune genes influence which gut bacteria live in animals by studying a tiny island bird population.