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An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that maintain life, said Donald Canfield, a geobiologist at the University of ...

B acteria, among the oldest of life forms, have lived in seemingly every possible habitat on the planet, from ocean trenches ...

A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have ...

Pathogenic Salmonella injects effector proteins into the cells of the gastrointestinal tract to penetrate and multiply within them. The bacteria are usually ingested with contaminated food. They ...

Contamination is one of the main roadblocks to successful cell culture. This article explores the different types of ...