PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

Hand-washing works One major point the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive home is how important it is to wash your hands. Washing ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

Weight loss is known to improve health in obesity. A new study provides clues to how: by rejuvenating fat tissue and changing ...

The performance recognition of bacteria cell images is an effective survey for treatment of various diseases caused by the bacteria. Many algorithms for bacteria classification are designed for the ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

Most DNA mutations are harmless. But your cells are making billions of new copies of themselves ... things such as chemicals, viruses and bacteria, the amount we exercise, and the foods we eat. Many ...

A single β-lactam exposure rapidly drives stable multidrug resistance in RecA-deficient bacteria through an SOS-independent mechanism involving oxidative stress-induced mutagenesis and ...

Doctors are observing a concerning rise in colon cancer among individuals under 50, potentially linked to ultra-processed ...

This important study introduces a Bayesian method to determine bacterial counts that accounts for the experimental noise inherent to dilution and plating methods, and distinguishes it from biological ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...