With the release of a study that links the use of nitrogen fertilizer in combination with antibiotic pesticides to escalating ...

The Junior Innovators Challenge, which bills itself the nation’s “premier science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) ...

In joint studies, scientists at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and University of Tübingen, as well as Gießen University, Freiburg University, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, US ...

Infection rates from drug-resistant "nightmare bacteria" rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists. Bacteria that are ...

I woke up feeling a bit out of it and made the mistake of checking my brain’s appendix — my phone — before using my actual brain. There, some journalist had titled an article: “URGENT: A Gene That ...

RENTON, Wash. — Gene Coulon Beach in Renton is currently closed to swimmers after recent water quality tests revealed bacteria levels that exceed public health safety standards. According to King ...

Bacterial conjugation is a key driver in the spread of antibiotic resistance. Despite extensive knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of conjugation, the dynamics of plasmid transfer within spatially ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems. Now an interdisciplinary ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems. Now an interdisciplinary ...

James Chappell, associate professor of biosciences and bioengineering at Rice University. In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, ...