Northeastern graduate student Bijaya Sharma, who worked on recent Lyme disease experiments that may have found a new way to kill "persister" cells. From the Northeast to the Midwest and beyond, it’s ...

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to ...

The descendants of regular wild-type bacteria can evolve to survive for a long time on metallic copper surfaces that would usually kill them within a few minutes. An international research team led by ...