A newly designed AI-powered tool is effective in developing treatments to attack antibiotic-resistant bacteria by breaking ...

Research has shed important new light on the enemies-turned-allies that allow bacteria to exchange genes, including those ...

Explore 25 biology facts the future will forget as science evolves. From DNA's 'blueprint' to mitochondria's 'powerhouse,' ...

Five years ago, scientists watched in wonder as synthetic bacteria grew and split into daughter cells. The bacteria’s extremely stripped-down genome still supported its entire life cycle. It was a ...

In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...

There is hardly an adult American who at some point hasn’t needed antibiotics — for bronchitis or a urinary tract infection, for example, or something more serious like pneumonia or blood poisoning.

A new review paper titled "Transformation-associated recombination (TAR) cloning and its applications for gene function; genome architecture and evolution; biotechnology and biomedicine" has been ...

A group of Stanford University scientists posted a paper online in mid-September, describing a feat that could have been plucked from the pages of science fiction: They used artificial intelligence to ...

Bacteria are rapidly emerging as a new class of “living medicines” used to kill cancer cells. We’re still a long way from a “cure” for cancer. But one day we could have programmable, self-navigating ...