Bacterial secondary metabolites represent a vast arsenal of bioactive compounds with the potential to combat antimicrobial ...

By mixing enzymes that were derived from sea sponges, with certain bacteria, Meyer’s team managed to get the living bacterial cells to make themselves into ... woven into flexible materials for ...

Researchers are developing the biomaterial as a more environmentally friendly alternative to concrete, but any wide-scale use ...

In the microscopic battlefield of plant-microbe interactions, plants are constantly fighting off invading bacteria. New research reveals just how clever these bacterial invaders can be.

In 2021, research led by Ryan Flynn, MD, Ph.D., and his mentor, Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D., opened a new chapter ...

A new tissue expansion method enables scientists to use mass spectrometry imaging to simultaneously detect hundreds of molecules at the single cell level in their native locations.

Pioneering research led by the University of Bristol has repurposed a gene-editing tool to help shed light on the true ...

Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...