Metal-organic framework (MOF) biosensors could enable the advanced detection of biomolecules, enhancing healthcare and environmental monitoring with high precision.
Colibactin is a powerful toxin produced by Escherichia coli and other bacteria living in the human gut. This highly unstable ...
The problem of antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) pollution in the environment has become one of the most severe public health ...
Scientists at EPFL have unraveled the mystery behind why biological nanopores, tiny molecular holes used in both nature and biotechnology, sometimes behave unpredictably. By experimenting with ...
Scientists have reported the discovery of the first in a promising new class of antibiotics — and the find was unexpected, as they hadn't set out to find new drugs. The new antibiotic compound shows ...
Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...
With the right genetic tweaks, a bacterium can be turned into a miniature factory that produces large quantities of a colour-changing pigment commonly found in nature 1. Xanthommatin is a pigment that ...
Infectious diseases remain one of the greatest global health challenges, with bacteria, viruses, and fungi continually ...
Bacteria that produce many antibiotics use a surprising self-poisoning system to coordinate development. Sensing a key signal ...