Superbugs - bacteria that are resistant to drugs - are a growing cause for concern, with a study showing that bacteria can ...

New research demonstrates how specially engineered bacteria taken orally can operate as a delivery system for vaccines and antiviral therapies.

New research from the University of Cincinnati demonstrates how specially engineered bacteria taken orally can operate as a ...

DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's ...

As concerns about waning antibiotic effectiveness grow, researchers are using unique tools to search for new ways to keep ...

Bacterial cells have colonized every part of our world. But even though some can evade disinfectants to live in NASA cleanrooms, others are ... | Microbiology ...

Researchers have developed the Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC), comprising 340 gut bacterial strains from 198 ...

Functional tests of self-documenting plasmids that include GenoFAB Standard Identifcation Numbers (GSINs) showed that the insertion of the GSIN sequence in the plasmid does not compromise their ...

Biophysics and Structural Genomics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Block AF, Sector-I, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India ...

Birmingham scientists have identified an essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to "displace" antibiotic-resistance genes from bacteria. Plasmids, which are small, ...