All of the enzymes required for a microorganism to synthesize a natural product are encoded by a self-contained, continuous genetic unit known as a biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) 9. The diversity of ...

Researchers tested their newly discovered peptide against one common antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Only about one in every hundred million survived to pass on genetic resistance. Reading time 3 ...

In the classic tale of tetanus, a farmworker steps on an old barn nail and develops the bacterial disease. Most Americans don’t work on farms these days, so it’s easy for people to dismiss the illness ...

Every cell in every organism on Earth copies DNA the same way. Except one bacterial protein — quietly doing something scientists had never seen before. Your DNA has never been created from scratch.

Mostly that’s because we convinced ourselves that it’s more efficient to take notes on our laptops or phones. A keyboard is certainly a faster way to capture thoughts. The problem is, it’s a lot less ...

A Harvard-led breakthrough may have brought one of medicine's more futuristic ideas much closer to reality: using living bacteria as tiny drug factories inside the body without letting them spread to ...

AI-powered real-time sensing detects bacteria via volatile chemical fingerprints, enabling faster infection diagnosis and targeted treatment. (Nanowerk News) Healthcare-associated infections remain a ...

Bacteria may be able to help mass-produce a natural UV-protectant ingredient called gadusol that is found in many fish and marine organisms. The chemical could be used to make sunscreen safer and ...

Researchers identified a bumblebee-derived Lactococcus lactis strain that can naturally increase vitamin B2 levels in fermented soy milk, helping close a key nutritional gap in plant-based milks. A ...

The Los Angeles County Public Health Department is warning beachgoers to avoid all contact with the water. The advisory is in place until 8 a.m. Wednesday. The Los Angeles County Public Health ...

In their landmark 1961 paper on the lac operon, Nobel laureates François Jacob and Jacques Monod speculated that RNA might control gene activity in bacteria through base-pairing interactions. But once ...