In a deft experiment, biologists have recreated a system that could have birthed essential cell features such as mitochondria ...

Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate the approach of cold weather and prepare for it.

Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the ...

A study explores how bacteria can establish endosymbiotic relationships with fungi. Researchers injected E. coli and ...

Giger continued the experiment over several generations of fungi, deliberately selecting those fungi whose spores contained ...

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The ...

To improve traceability and enable authentication of synthetic nucleic acid sequences, researchers are embedding digital ...

Oct. 8, 2024 — Rates of babesiosis, a tick-borne parasitic disease, increased an average of 9% per year in the United States between 2015 and 2022 and four in 10 patients were found to be co ...

Researchers have created a phage cocktail that could be used to treat antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections.

As XEC, the latest COVID variant takes hold, we are watching viral evolution play out on a time scale short enough to follow, ...

Researchers have a new battle tactic to fight drug-resistant bacterial infections. Their strategy involves using collections ...