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

Sensors that utilize bacteria to monitor pollutants or nutrients in the soil have been previously made, but their functionality isn’t dependable past the lab, and practicality remains limited. This is ...

In 2017, microbiologist Dr. Markus Egert from the University of Furtwangen in Germany published data on the bacterial ...

Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Linköping (Sweden) have established ...

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) ...

Scientists have developed a new genetically engineered bacterium that could help solve the plastic pollution crisis.

The bacterium Clostridium difficile — otherwise known as C. diff — spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, according to a study published on April 4 in ...

A notorious bacterium is spreading through hospitals more easily than thought. Researchers found Clostridium difficile ...

If all goes to plan, scientists may someday begin building outposts on the moon — and some experts believe that these ...

A key to antibiotic resistance might be the use of viruses to kill bacteria, however, the systems that bacteria employ to defense themselves against viruses are unknown. Understanding these systems ...