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Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

Decomposition is essential to all ecosystems, both on land and in the ocean. In marine environments, decomposition and ...

Using ribosome engineering (RE), researchers from Shinshu University introduced mutations affecting the protein synthesis ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

“We found that gut bacteria, including Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, ferment sugars into ethanol in the ...

Mapping the genomes of the bacteria responsible for yaws, a debilitating childhood disease, has uncovered new insights into ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...