Scientists at LSU have patented a novel way to kill cancer cells using staph bacteria, sometimes called the “superbug.” ...
Antimicrobial resistance—when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs designed to kill them—is an urgent ...
Gut microbes engineered to dim their fluorescence under stress offered a real-time, noninvasive biosensor to track gut health ...
Every week, The Lab Report will feature a different undergraduate research assistant on campus and their experience in the lab. A University of Wisconsin biology student is looking into the ...
The Lab Report: Every week, the Lab Report takes a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. When a population of bacteria is large enough, individual ...
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have generated strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli that consume just CO 2 as their nutrient source, instead of organic compounds. They ...
Day after day, workers at Michigan State University care for and feed colonies of evolving bacteria. The original microbes have produced more than... Bacterial Competition In Lab Shows Evolution Never ...
Being able to grow the elusive and poorly understood bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), will make it easier for researchers to find treatments for the disease that has destroyed ...