Jumbo phages utilize a complex protein import system, with Imp1 as a key gatekeeper, to transport proteins into their ...

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

A study of nematodes by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan has found that aging-related decline in brain function is caused by the excessive activation of certain neurons over time, rather than ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

Did you know that an area of New Jersey is considered the fluorescent mineral capital of the world? The towns of Franklin and ...

Strategy for discovering protist – bacterial interactions in the ocean. The strategy relied on working at-sea where uncultivated cells could be interrogated without any form of fixation. The cartoon ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

Molecular communications in the bloodstream is a promising area of research, since the bloodstream has the ability to ...

This important study demonstrates the potential of synthetic gene circuits to detect and target aberrant RAS activity in cancer cell lines. The circuit design is novel and the evidence supporting the ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have reported crossing the blood–brain barrier with help from a modified Lactobacillus plantarum. By delivering an appetite-regulating hormone ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...