Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

A colony of leafcutter ants is home to more than just one species. Each year, studies reveal new layers of complexity in ...

Scientists can now do research on live human organs without petri dishes or animal testing.

A colony of leafcutter ants is home to more than just one species. Each year, studies reveal new layers of complexity in these ecosystems, where ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed a new drug candidate that significantly enhances the effectiveness of the antibiotic metronidazole against Helicobacter pylori, a ...

Researchers from Imperial and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) have discovered a drug target that ...

Infectious keratitis remains a leading cause of corneal blindness and visual impairment worldwide, with bacterial, fungal, amoebic and viral pathogens presenting major diagnostic and therapeutic ...

Study shows how viral single-gene lysis proteins lock the peptidoglycan flippase MurJ into an outward-facing state ...

The origin of the nucleus remains hotly debated among scientists, but new imaging and genomic data are shedding light on this billion-year-old mystery.

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...