Researchers from Spain sampled sink drains from different wards in a single modern university hospital where state-of-the-art cleaning protocols are adhered to. Through culturing and DNA barcoding, ...

As current antibiotics lose potency, scientists are developing resistant surfaces to deter bacterial hitchhikers. This article was produced for Mega by Scientific American Custom Media ...

Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria in ...

Techniques that have enabled this discipline are culture in defined media, replica plating, mutagenesis, transformation, conjugation and transduction. Bacteria can use different mechanisms to ...