A research team led by scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) has introduced a new ...

AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.

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Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to ...

For decades, scientists thought the noncoding parts of DNA were useless leftovers. Today, that view has completely changed.

Zhang, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is trying to distinguish the healthy bacteria in our ...

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Surprising discoveries about the species responsible for 90 per cent of mushroom-related deaths is revealing the fungi ...

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