In its purest form (with no extra debris), liquid water can exist as a liquid until -40°C if left still (unmoving). In order ...

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have engineered a common gut bacterium to carry a chemotherapy prodrug ...

Researchers have revealed how bacteria precisely control the genes that trigger cell division. The study shows that the MraZ ...

In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one years ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against phages—viruses that infect them. In a study published in Nature Microbiology, the ...

An international research team led by Konrad Meister from Boise State University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry ...

Claims that hundreds of bacterial genes have been transferred directly into humans are unfounded, according to a study published in June 21 Nature. The initial report by the International Human Genome ...

When we artificially induce rain or snow, we use a process called cloud seeding. Particles are launched into the sky to give ...

Microplastics gather anti-biotic resistant bacteria as they move through water, allowing microbes to spread from polluted ...

The cartoon illustrates how single-cell transcriptomics works: all mRNA molecules are recorded and characterized from countless bacterial cells, which are shown here in survival size on a conveyor ...