Researchers suggest the bacteria could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, acting as sensors to help farmers ...

Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, these signals can only be detected by looking at the cells under a microscope ...

The goal is to make phages that are better at killing bacteria so that we can have a range of phage therapy applications." ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

The Dutch haberdasher had crafted some of the first microscopes, never expecting to spy bacteria, sperm cells ... that boost the magnifying power of light microscopes up to about 1,500 times.

Researchers engineered bacteria to produce spectral pigments in response to environmental triggers. Using hyperspectral ...

Contamination is one of the main roadblocks to successful cell culture. This article explores the different types of ...

Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the ...