Researchers recently identified bacteria in Crete producing metabolites that quickly kill mosquito larvae in lab tests.

Gut bacteria are known to be a key factor in many health-related concerns. However, the number and variety of them is vast, ...

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have the nickname 'forever chemicals' thanks to their persistence in the ...

Using E. coli and plastic waste to produce a common pain medication, researchers say their findings could pave the way for more sustainable chemistry methods.

Nitrogen fertilizers have been extremely important in the rise of modern agriculture and food security. Source: Unsplash/George Bakos ...

Scientists have figured out how to turn plastic waste into the painkiller acetaminophen using specially engineered bacteria.

Scientists have discovered that a strain of common faecal bacteria can convert plastic waste into the drug paracetamol, a ...

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique morphology and genetic structure may be useful for the development of ...

A new study sheds light on one of the great enigmas of microbiology: why only certain strains of common bacteria become ...

Bacteria in a petri dish similar to that swabbed with sterile wipes on China’s Tiangong Space Station. ridvanarda – stock.adobe.com. All of these unique formations, likely mutations of the ...

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.