Now, a study published April 2 in the journal Cell has shown that bacteria in the genus Oscillibacter break down cholesterol ...

Patagonia’s ‘living rocks’ hold ancient bacterial biofilms, offering insights into early life and potential bioengineering ...

That's because antibiotics can cause a decline in a healthy bacteria species called Lactobacillus genus that naturally ...

To put that in perspective, the Earth is thought to be about 4.5 billion years old, which means these "rocks"—really ...

Scientists at Cornell University have uncovered a new mechanism that bacterial transposons —often called “jumping genes” —use ...

“It’s a very striking finding,” she added. The researchers sequenced bacterial genes in 114 fecal samples from patients who had recently been diagnosed with RA, patients who had been treated for RA, ...

In the bacterium M. smegmatis, an enzyme called MftG allows the cofactor mycofactocin to transfer electrons released during ethanol metabolism to the electron transport chain.

Tasmanian salmon farms are experiencing mass fish deaths due to the Piscirickettsia salmonis bacteria, the state government has confirmed. The disease was identified on Friday through “complex genetic ...