The domestication of livestock and plants marked an important stage in the settlement of human populations in the Neolithic ...

Dozens of top scientists are warning that creating synthetic "mirror bacteria," composed of biomolecules that are the mirror ...

A Nobel Prize-winning biologist has warned about deadly artificial bacteria capable of taking over human bodies amid rising ...

According to the new paper, researchers fear that mirror bacteria could be able to evade natural predators like phage viruses ...

One example of a bacterium that poses a serious threat is ‘Listeria monocytogenes’. This bacterium lives in soil but can ...

Soil plays a much bigger role in the spread of antibiotic resistance than one might imagine. Surprisingly, the ground beneath ...

For example, some RNA molecules can turn genes on or off ... Not only are these obelisks found far and wide, they also appear ...

Experts sounded an alarm about the potentially lethal risks of creating mirror bacteria, synthetic organisms in which the ...

Experts warn about unprecedented risks from research into synthetic 'mirror bacteria' that could disrupt ecosystems and human health.

“We know the community of microbes living in the large intestine can produce compounds that affect aspects of human biology – ...

The domestication of plants and animals has played a key role in the development of human societies. And microbes, too, have ...