The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...
Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin had the disease. And scientists know that the ...
A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...
A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for ...
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy found that ...
A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same patient, raising the risk of life-threatening sepsis, new research reveals. Published in ...
To confirm the central role of this process, the scientists used a genetically modified strain of E. faecalis lacking the EET ...
Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...
Researchers have developed a ‘smart tweezer’ that is able to pluck a particular bacterial strain from a microbiome of trillions and sequence its genome in a more cost- and resource-effective way than ...
Scientists have discovered the world's largest bacterium in a Caribbean mangrove swamp. Most bacteria are microscopic — but this one is so big it can be seen with the naked eye. The thin white ...
The microbiome of infants is shaped by social relationships from an early age and not only by family sources. This was confirmed by a study conducted by researchers of the Department of Cellular, ...