Unlocking the genetic mechanism behind hydrogen production. An international research team, including Professor Tomoo Sawabe ...

On March 25, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first new antibiotic to treat UTIs in 30 years. The ...

Acquired resistance genes may allow bacteria to degrade or chemically modify antibiotics, rendering them ineffective. They ...

A CONTAMINATED cheese has been urgently recalled amid fears it contains a deadly bacteria. Food Standards Scotland (FSS) ...

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Bacteria precisely adjust their membrane lipid composition by modifying the types of fatty acids that are produced by the biosynthetic pathway and altering the structures of pre-existing ...

E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The engineered bacterial system described in the study may help in the ...

Mobile DNA elements, such as Insertion Sequence (IS) elements, transposons, integrative elements (e.g. integrative islands), ...

coli, a potentially dangerous bacteria that can cause diarrhea ... antibiotics used to treat many different types of bacterial illness. When the E. coli biofilms were on microplastics, they ...

“In some cases, a bout of food poisoning can cause such severe imbalances to your microbiome that it can actually rewire your ...