Researchers discover a hidden virus in gut bacteria that could explain colon cancer and help detect it earlier ...

A benchtop bioreactor system developed at Hannover Medical School can produce up to 40 million human immune cells per week ...

A new study published in Engineering reveals that cinnamic acid, a widely used food additive found in cinnamon, can effectively inhibit ...

Scientists have just discovered an entirely new way that DNA can be synthesized. The business of constructing DNA ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Antibiotics are designed to kill harmful bacteria and help the body recover from infection. But some antibiotics may also ...

The development targets sepsis, a condition responsible for millions of deaths each year worldwide. Scientists from CIBER at the University of Valladolid Clinical Hospital have created an AI-based ...

Viruses that infect bacteria don’t just attack – they communicate. Using chemical signals, they “talk” to each other to decide whether to destroy a host cell or lie low and wait for better conditions.

Antibiotic resistance is worsening worldwide, and plasmid conjugation is a major way resistance genes spread. A new study in ...

Mammalian cells initiate antiviral signaling when cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) detects cytoplasmic DNA and synthesizes 2',3'-cyclic GMP-AMP (2',3'-cGAMP), which activates stimulator of interferon ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

Top: Chromosome separate with functioning SMC in two models, line drawing and filled-space. The red and pink dots indicate, respectively, ori on each copy of DNA. Bottom: DNA separating without ...