“Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all life on earth, an international group of leading scientists have warned in a new report. All building-block molecules of life like DNA, proteins and ...

Ortiz, a junior majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering working as the undergraduate lab manager in the Betenbaugh ...

Antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs design to kill them - is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

We have become much more aware of all of the surfaces we touch daily and what kinds of germs can be on them. The Microbiology Lab at the Medical College of Georgia conducted an experiment with ...

The European Commission has named the labs that will lead work on bacteria, parasites, and viruses. The European Reference Laboratories (EURLs) are for food- and water-borne bacteria, food- and ...

Early in 2025, scientists discovered a promising new antibiotic in a soil sample from a lab technician's backyard. The molecule, called lariocidin, is produced by the microbe Paenibacillus and shows ...

In A Nutshell Living detectors: Researchers modified E. coli bacteria to light up when they sense acetic acid, the chemical ...

Bacteria are ubiquitous microscopic organisms capable of rapid growth. While beneficial strains like lactic acid bacteria (LAB) promote gut health and food preservation, pathogenic bacteria such as ...