AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.

When our immune system reacts, it doesn’t just fight microbes; it also changes the gut environment. This study shows that during inflammation, our body releases long-chain unsaturated fatty acids ...

Johns Hopkins scientists are developing new antidotes for combating bacterial diseases such as those from ticks and ...

Scientists analyze 4.3 billion dipeptides across species to trace genetic code evolution and early protein development.

Hemak, president and CEO of the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, has been appointed to ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

In the US, more than 90% of corn plants are genetically modified to withstand weed-killing chemicals like glyphosate, to make ...

The work, described in a preprint paper, has the potential to create new treatments and accelerate research into artificially ...

A research team led by scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) has introduced a new ...

Fusobacterium nucleatum (F. nucleatum) is an anaerobic bacterium notably enriched in the gut microbiota of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients and may play a role in CRC both by colonizing tumor cells ...

How do cells know what they should become as the body develops? Biological development depends crucially on spatial patterns: ...

A research team led by scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) has introduced a new way to fine-tune genetic material. Their study, published in Nature ...