Breweries nationwide create waste at several stages of the beer-making process. Repurposing parts of this waste could improve ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...

Researchers are one step closer to understanding how some plants survive without nitrogen. Their work could eventually reduce ...

While gut bacteria play an essential (if not always socially tactful) role in human nutrition, a wealth of recent research ...