Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

A consortium of bacteria can digest plastics more effectively than lone microbes, highlighting an approach that could aid in environmental cleanup.

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

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

Hospital wastewater is difficult to clean because it often carries two very different threats at once: chemical dye residues and harmful bacteria. Researchers have now developed a polyurethane ...

Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of ...

Three species of bacteria in combination are capable of breaking down PAE diethyl phthalate, an important component in plastic pollution. Yet none of the three can do the same thing in isolation to ...

It could enable doctors to diagnose infections such as pneumonia much quicker - without the need for invasive blood tests.

Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of individual human cells infected with bacteria that model tuberculosis – and ...

Infectious diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, and diagnosing bacterial infections remains a challenge in medicine. And doing so reliably is more important than ever, given the increasing ...

Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.