We have become much more aware of all of the surfaces we touch daily and what kinds of germs can be on them. The Microbiology Lab at the Medical College of Georgia conducted an experiment with ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Bacteria are found in large numbers all over ...

A portable power-free test for the rapid detection of bacterial resistance to antibiotics has been developed by academics at Loughborough University and the University of Reading. The new test termed ...

All building-block molecules of life like DNA, proteins and carbohydrates have a unique structural property that still perplexes scientists. They have what is called structural asymmetry, or chirality ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a main cause of bacterial pneumonia worldwide. It can also cause ear and sinus infections and, in ...

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have generated strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli that consume just CO 2 as their nutrient source, instead of organic compounds. They ...

The genome structure—how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism—is fundamental to the processes and functions of organisms. A team at the University of Tokyo has developed a system to ...