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 ...

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

If gut bacteria are too similar to the protective layer of nerves, they can misdirect the immune system and cause it to attack its own nervous system. This mechanism can accelerate the progression of ...

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.

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.

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular ...

Nobody wants harmful bacteria colonizing the surfaces of objects such as medical implants, yet we also don't want them building up a resistance to antibiotics. Well, help may be on the way, in the ...