Researchers have unveiled photon-driven nanorobots capable of steering and transporting bacteria, alongside the first atomic-level map of a sheathed bacterial flagellum, revealing new potential drug ...

Photon-driven nanorobots can steer, capture, and move bacteria with precision, enabling controlled manipulation in ...

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Millions of tons of plastic waste accumulate in landfills and oceans every year. One promising response is to engineer ...

A new study detected both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in tattoo and permanent makeup inks. Researchers have detected anaerobic and aerobic bacteria in commercial tattoo and permanent makeup inks.

Chemicals are found in many things around us. New research shows that their impact may be greater than expected.

Bacteria can live practically anywhere; they have colonized the human body, the ocean depths, frozen ice, and blistering hot springs. Scientists have recovered bacterial samples from a variety of wild ...

C.A. Tolchinsky is a medical education learning specialist at Nova Southeastern University College of Allopathic Medicine. Bryn Tolchinsky is a senior scientist at Eli Lilly. When medical students are ...

Climate change is transforming the Earth’s natural systems at an unprecedented pace, influencing temperature patterns, rainfall distribution, and the ...

Here the authors outline best practices for the development, implementation and evaluation of synthetic microbial communities (or SynComs) across different systems. Here the authors discuss the use of ...

Bacteria can be ruthless. A new study has shown that when their survival is threatened because of food scarcity, they will kill and consume neighboring microbes. The work, which was reported in ...

Scientists have discovered that bacteria can create something like memories about when to form strategies that can cause dangerous infections in people, such as resistance to antibiotics and bacterial ...