Alarmingly, the hand-dryer petri dish had spawned multiple types of visible bacteria and one fungus too ... However, if you ...

The proto-eyes are what really disturbed me. For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature replicas of parts of the human brain from stem cells. Such brain ...

The petri dish shimmers with colour, flashing a rich, emerald-green iridescence under the fluorescent lights of the laboratory. The lab technician leans in with a wide grin. “That’s E.

These scientists have bioengineered a version of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria that can break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the material commonly used in plastic bottles.

According to the World Health Organization, antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial medicines. Antibiotics and other ...

Researchers are trying to understand why resistant pathogens are so prevalent in the war-torn nations of the Middle East.

Bacteria living inside other cells can form ... We can now study these symbiotic mergers in filamentous fungi, and, by tracking adaptive evolution in the laboratory, can identify the functions ...

Nov. 26, 2024 — Engineers and biochemists have brought their skills together to make it possible for untrained users to confirm contamination in fluids using a biogel test that changes color in ...