Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

IISc Bengaluru team is developing a microbial experiment to test the bacteria’s growth patterns and behaviour in ...

Scientists have decoded the metabolic strategies of certain sulfur bacteria. A new study reports that the bacteria are found worldwide and have a complex metabolism with modular features.

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

All life on Earth ... Mirror bacteria in particular had the potential to be a useful basic research tool – possibly allowing scientists to study a new tree of life for the first time and solve ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

True to its name, this prokaryote-like organism represents the ancestor of every living thing, from the tiniest of bacteria ...