Soil bacteria help plants grow roots by suppressing immune responses. Scientists reveal the role of enzymes in balancing ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Parasite, zombie, leech—these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms ...

A new study has uncovered how the defense mechanisms of bacteria can be neutralized, facilitating more efficient genetic ...

A new study by Tel Aviv University reveals how bacterial defense mechanisms can be neutralized, enabling the efficient ...

Scientists have been engineering “mirror life” by changing the chirality of life’s building blocks. Now, it's time to set ...

Genetic diversity is vital for species to adapt to environmental changes. In humans and many organisms, sexual reproduction drives this diversity. However, bacteria lack such a mechanism. Instead, ...

"Mirror bacteria" being developed in labs could be a looming risk to the health of humanity, scientists have warned. These hypothetical organisms get their name from how their molecules would face ...

A leading group of scientists has said research aimed at developing synthetic 'mirror' bacteria should be halted because it could pose an existential threat to humanity. The coalition of 38 ...

At the individual level, organisms develop many complex morphological and physiological ... investigated the effects of flowing water stimulation on hormonal regulation during the artificial ...

John Glass, PhD is a synthetic biologist at the J. Craig Venter Institute. The Venter Institute built bacterial cells with chemically synthesized genomes, which are widely called the world’s first ...