Researchers developed a technique that attaches a cancer-killing toxin to modified bacteria capable of entering tumor cells. Once inside, the toxin is released to destroy the cancer cell, ...

Imaging-based single-cell physiological profiling holds great potential for uncovering fundamental bacterial cold shock response (CSR) mechanisms, but its application is impeded by severe focus drift ...

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Bacteria and phages that travel in space behave much differently in microgravity than they do in labs on Earth, exciting ...

Scientists in Seoul have uncovered 15 gut bacterial species linked to coronary artery disease, showing that microbes can influence heart health far beyond digestion. Their findings reveal how shifts ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to the forefront of global health care. After their clinical ...

Microbiologist Karen Guillemin considered many universities when she was searching for her first faculty position 25 years ago. In the end, she came ...

In 1928, a chance contaminant in Scottish physician Alexander Fleming's lab experiment led to a discovery that would change the field of medicine forever: penicillin. Since then, penicillin and other ...

A newly identified protein may hold the key to rejuvenating aging brain cells. Researchers found that boosting DMTF1 can restore the ability of neural stem cells to regenerate, even when age-related ...