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A nationwide recall of frozen nutritional shakes has been issued after a listeria outbreak tied to the drinks resulted in ...

For biochemists, it's the which-came-first question: oxygen production by photosynthesis or oxygen consumption by aerobic ...

Evelyn M. Witkin passed away on July 8, 2023, in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey, at the age of 102. Her legacy lives on in ...

Buruli ulcer is a tropical disease caused by the environmental bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans. The bacteria releases toxins ...

Researchers have identified a new mechanism by which a key bacterium in periodontitis evades the immune system.

Researchers have identified a new mechanism by which a key bacterium in periodontitis evades the immune system. The study ...

New research suggests that plague was present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. A new study ...

Building a gene editor took months. With CRISPR even high-schoolers can get hold of editing systems in the time it takes to ...

Bacteria get up to all sorts of strange things. As a result, they’ve evolved to produce an extensive range of small molecules ...

There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with possibly 476,000 people a year diagnosed and treated in the U.S.

In a recent publication in Cell, researchers from the National University of Singapore and collaborators have proposed using commensal bacteria in the nasal cavity as a delivery vector for precision ...