The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years ...

Anaerobic bacteria were among the first life forms on Earth and existed at a time when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere.

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ASU professor Glen D’Souza joined The Show to speak more about what he’s discovered about these bacteria: Not only will ...

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Spatial metabolomics is transforming our understanding of microbial systems by uncovering the localized molecular dynamics ...

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.

Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic ...

Prokaryotic bacteria cell Bacteria are single-celled organisms that thrive in a wide variety of environments, from soil and water to the human gut to extreme habitats like hot springs. 19 Bacteria ...

Bacteria are traditionally imagined as single-cell organisms, spread out sparsely over surfaces or suspended in liquids, but in many environments the true bacterial mode of growth is in sticky ...

However, in bacterial single-cell DNA amplification, ... (CSR) to evolve the phi29 DNA polymerase, they modified its structure to enhance its activity, specificity, and stability.