Scientists at Goethe University uncover how the oldest enzyme in cellular respiration functions – opening the door to potential CO₂ removal from exhaust emissions. Animals, plants, and many other livi ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years. More than ...

Litter near the Charles River. For 10 to 15 days, Nelia Gross, a PhD candidate studying materials science and engineering, and other researchers incubated several types of microplastics with E. coli, ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Listeria is believed to have left three people dead, putting the NHS on high alert, but its symptoms are not always obvious.

The Trump administration halted some food testing and shut down a committee studying bacteria in infant formula. Earlier ...

An elderly man in the Netherlands ended up suffering serious pneumonia after being infected with a bacteria strain not seen ...

Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

Once attached, the bacteria created a biofilm: a sticky material that protects microbes from invaders and keeps them fixed to ...