A research team led by scientists from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo, Brazil, has made significant ...
Hygiene in everyday items that touch the body—such as clothing, masks, and toothbrushes—is critically important. The underlying principle of how graphene selectively eliminates only bacteria has now ...
When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don’t undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...
The feat — reported on the preprint server bioRxiv this month 1 — could boost efforts to re-engineer microbial life by moving entire genomes into bacteria to imbue them with useful properties, such as ...
A Franco-British team of scientists has explored two human proteins recently identified as immune enzymes. Structural studies in vitro show that, in a cell infected by a virus for example, these ...
A living, synthetic cell has been made by transplanting a complete genome into a dead bacterium, bringing it back to life. The breakthrough could help synthetic biology live up to its huge, but still ...