Scientists have uncovered new clues about why diabetic foot infections can become so severe and difficult to treat. By ...

New research led by King's College London, in collaboration with the University of Westminster, has shed light on the ...

Liquid culture flasks of bacteria grown in yellow broth covered with tinfoil on a shaker. Bacterial strains needed to be tested every step of the way to create the highly compressed genome. Credit: ...

Most organisms on Earth have the same basic genetic code, but it comes with some flaws. Scientists sought to work out those errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s ...

The labs of Julian Sale and Jason Chin at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., have created two new tools critical for rapid genome construction at ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

Experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that bacteriophages can still infect Escherichia coli under ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Most organisms on Earth have the same basic genetic code, but it comes with some flaws. Scientists sought to work out those errors by creating their ...