Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

Researchers suggest the bacteria could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, acting as sensors to help farmers ...

Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...

Some cell-shocking facts about these microscopic organisms — they may lack bones, bravado, or branding, but they are among ...

Having received £2.8 million in funding from the BBSRC and industry, the University of Surrey’s SEISMIC facility uses the advanced microscope manufactured by Yokogawa to enable single-cell and ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

A total of three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and incurable brain condition, have been detected in Hood River ...

A study of about 250 patients in America, published in 2024 in the New England Journal of Medicine, linked the presence of ...

Neutrophils in urine extrude their DNA to create large webs that catch and kill pathogens.

About a millionth of an inch in size, a fraction of most bacteria, phages become visible only under an electron microscope ... either dissolve or burst the cell wall, destroying the host bacterium ...