Contamination is one of the main roadblocks to successful cell culture. This article explores the different types of ...

Saccharin destabilizes bacterial membranes and interferes with DNA replication, causing lysis and impairing virulence traits.

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

BioAFMs enable the analysis of single molecules, bacteria, living cells, nucleic acids ... resolution allows users to investigate the morphology and surface structure at the sub-molecular ...

Cell & Environment, show that the microbiomes in the root surface zone and rhizosphere are distinctive in four different tree species. Results also exhibited differences between the bacterial ...

Recursion Pharmaceuticals—a relatively small company backed by the chip giant Nvidia—is betting that its massive ...

Roksana Riddle and Christopher H. Contag from Michigan State University discuss the concept of endosymbiosis, how it has ...

Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, ...