Imagine wanting to use a phage against an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection. The only thing standing in the way of that phage killing the bacteria and eradicating the infection might be the ...

Citrus greening is a disease with no known cure that has infected nearly every citrus grove. It first cropped up 20 years ago ...

Malaria, gonorrhea, and chlamydia are infectious diseases that pose major global health challenges, especially in low-income countries. For example ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

By spinning bacteria in a controlled flow, scientists produce aligned cellulose sheets with tensile strength over 500 MPa.

Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Ness Ziona have used the platform ...

Scientists at MIT have turbocharged one of nature’s most sluggish but essential enzymes—rubisco—by applying a cutting-edge ...

Scientists have developed a supercooled sensor that delivers full radioactivity profiles without chemical tracers.

The field of biotechnology has made significant strides in enhancing agricultural productivity by developing crops that can ...

An engineer @UHouston has developed a way to turn bacterial cellulose — a biodegradable material — into a multifunctional ...