A doctor in the UK is on trial for attempted murder with this extremely deadly poison ...

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If you’ve been scrolling through food videos in recent years, or spent time reading about kitchen cleanliness on the internet, you might have heard a frequently quoted statistic: “the average ...

Human innards are teeming with viruses that infect bacteria. What are they up to? You've probably heard of the microbiome – the hordes of bacteria and other tiny life forms that live in our guts.

There exist many other protein screening platforms that allow for studying protein–protein interactions (Figure 2). Here, we briefly summarize the principles of some widely used screening ...

With billions of bacteria present in a sample of soil, the researchers relied on the genetic makeup of microbial communities to determine their functional roles. The team zeroed in on genes that ...

The ribosome is a large complex that synthesizes ... The researchers looked at three bacterial cultures of species in particular, Clostridium acetobutylicum, Clostridium ljungdahlii and ...

A research team developed a microbial strain that efficiently produces aromatic polyester using systems metabolic engineering. Among various eco-friendly polymers, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA ...

In 10 flights over Japan, researchers found a host of bacteria and fungi. These high-altitude germs could help spread disease around the world. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has written about ...