Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages, and they have real potential to defeat antibiotic ...

ABOVE: A number of scientists are calling for a ban on research that could create mirror bacteria, which pose significant risks to society. ©iStock, Galina Kamenskaya. A s synthe ...

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

To do that, they developed a polymer coating that integrates with the bacterial cell membrane and chemically modified cell membranes with the catalytic polymers. “We took a common industrial ...

Certain intestinal bacteria are found more frequently in countries such as Norway than in a number of other countries and ...

A group of researchers has published new findings in Science Policy Forum on potential risks from the development of mirror ...

This work introduces an important new method for depleting ribosomal RNA from bacterial single-cell RNA sequencing libraries, demonstrating its applicability for studying heterogeneity in microbial ...

Our understanding of how bacterial cells communicate—and to what end—has advanced considerably in the past ... They then engineered it in physical form into a plasmid for expression, using the basic ...

Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of DNA, called ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

Scientists made a number of other significant advances in our basic understanding of how life works this year ... known as ...