“Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all life on earth, an international group of leading scientists have warned in a new report. All building-block molecules of life like DNA, proteins and ...

Researchers have identified gut bacteria that can absorb toxic "forever chemicals" in lab mice, according to a new study, potentially offering up a way to control PFAS levels in humans. PFAS, or ...

Virus-built silver appears much more effective against bacteria than commercial silver. In A Nutshell Lab safety tests showed no harm to human kidney cells at concentrations 10 times higher than ...

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

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubled the ...

University of Basel (Switzerland) and University Hospital Basel researchers discovered 35 unknown bacterial pathogens in blood or tissue samples, including seven that caused clinical infections. The ...

All building-block molecules of life like DNA, proteins and carbohydrates have a unique structural property that still perplexes scientists. They have what is called structural asymmetry, or chirality ...