The study, published in the latest issue of ’BMC Biology’, demonstrates how disruption of the gut microbiome initiates systemic inflammation in the body ...

Biphenomycins, natural products derived from bacteria, show excellent antimicrobial activity, but have long remained out of reach for drug development. The main obstacle was the limited understanding ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the ‘dark genome’ that are responsible for controlling how cells sense and respond to the ...

CRISPR, the gene-editing technology which won its creators the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is most well-known for its ...

Turning off the genetic switch to its respiratory system might finally eliminate the bacteria behind tuberculosis.

For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

Scientists developed wheat that helps create its own natural fertilizer, promising cleaner and more affordable farming.

Evo’s success wasn’t limited to proteins. When they tested a different toxin that had an RNA-based inhibitor, the system ...