Concrete is one of the quiet foundations of modern life, yet it is also one of the dirtiest materials humanity produces. A ...

A novel method converts industrial lignin waste into porous materials for effective removal of pollutants and bacteria from ...

Healthy soils depend on a healthy soil microbiome, with beneficial organisms like bacteria providing key ecosystem services.

This sibling-controlled East Asian study found that autistic individuals, their unaffected siblings, and typically developing ...

A new high-throughput study using preexisting publicly available data shows that E. coli proteins containing a specific structure, called a non-covalent lasso entanglement, are more likely to misfold ...

Machine learning methods have emerged as promising tools to predict antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and uncover resistance determinants from genomic data. This study shows that sampling biases driven ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

New research reveals that when gut bacteria closely resemble the myelin sheath that protects nerve fibers, the immune system can become confused and attack both — accelerating multiple sclerosis.

If gut bacteria are too similar to the protective layer of nerves, they can misdirect the immune system and cause it to ...

After a patient's death, the state health department found germs that cause Legionnaires’ disease in the water at St.

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.