Humans have bred for desirable plant and animal traits for millennia by selecting and crossing their offspring. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen are taking a natural shortcut to ...

A study of 29 European lakes has found that some naturally-occurring lake bacteria grow faster and more efficiently on the remains of plastic bags than on natural matter like leaves and twigs. The ...

Remnants of everything that humans ingest ends up in wastewater, including medications that people may be taking, like antibiotics. Low levels of antibiotics in wastewater can affect bacteria as well, ...

Cleaning the bathroom is often seen as a dreaded chore, yet it is one of the most important tasks to maintain a hygienic home. Bathrooms are high-traffic areas where germs, bacteria, and dirt ...

Scientists have known for a long time that microbes can take up extracellular DNA fragments, and they have leveraged this transformation process to genetically modify bacteria in the lab. However, ...

When we humans developed antibiotics, we escalated our evolutionary war with bacteria. And now, bacteria seem to be winning. They’re developing resistance to all our antibiotics, even colistin, an ...

A new study has demonstrated that a natural bacterial defense mechanism against invading viruses can be used as a weapon to combat bacterial infection. The finding opens the door to new anti-bacterial ...

The process of bacterial transformation involves the introduction of foreign plasmid DNA into a bacterial cell. The transformation of DNA into bacteria cells, for example, Escherichia coli (E. coli), ...

Researchers headed by teams at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and at Harvard University, have ...