Many new names sounded as if they’d been cooked up by a medieval monk. HIV-1 would henceforth be known as Lentivirus ...

Targeting unique metabolic pathways in pathogens offers a novel approach to precision antibiotics, addressing the growing ...

Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Laboratory, have published a study in ...

In their project, reported in the journal Advanced Materials, the group developed a multi-step process that allows bacteria to grow in a ceramic material. Prior research has shown that biofilms ...

Taxonomy is the classification and description of living organisms. It includes the naming and defining of species, and the collation of data about their biology and biogeography.

Antibiotics are powerful tools for treating bacterial infections, yet they come with a significant drawback: the disruption ...

ultrafast taxonomic profiling and genome querying for metagenomic samples by abundance-corrected minhash.

Here, a granular sludge bioprocess for the production of caproic acid through sugar-based chain elongation metabolism was established. Lactic acid and chain-elongating bacteria were identified as the ...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory condition of the large bowel of unknown aetiology, characterised by the presence of bloody diarrhoea and mucus associated with a negative stool ...

A plant-based diet can improve health and prevent disease by feeding the good bacteria in your digestive tract. Trillions of bacteria live in your digestive tract and play an important role in health.

Some Bacteria Evolve Like Clockwork With the Seasons Jan. 3, 2025 — Each year, most species of bacteria in a Wisconsin lake rapidly evolved, apparently in response to dramatically changing ...