Decades of reliance on the antibiotic rifampicin have fueled the rise of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). But ...

Bacteria created using mirror images of natural biomolecules would pose a grave threat to life on Earth, some researchers ...

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Cranberry juice may help antibiotics combat resistant bacteria that cause urinary tract infections in millions each year.

A high-containment germ-research laboratory at the University of Georgia flooded twice this fall, and in one of the overflows, water leaked into a basement that had a lower security level than the lab ...

From discovering plastic-eating bacterium to finding a new catalytic process in soils, the Aristilde Research Group had a busy year in 2024. It published seven papers and submitted four more for ...

What if there were a way to make proteins, enzymes and reagents right in the lab, in small amounts, on demand? Microscopic images of E.coli bacteria. Image courtesy of the Center for Disease Control.

Leaders of the high-level biosafety research center at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston hope to figuratively spread some germs _ in a good way. Late last year UTMB's Center for ...