In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or ...
Researchers from South Korea developed a novel microbial source tracking method using CrAss-like phages, abundant viruses in ...
Fecal contamination of clean water can be detected via microbial source tracking, a method that identifies specific ...
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoff that ultimately finds its way into rivers and lakes is a ...
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoffs that ultimately find their way into rivers and lakes is ...
Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form ...
Researchers studying the aphid uncovered a complicated story: The gene actually comes from a bacterial virus, or bacteriophage, that infects the bacteria that live inside the aphid. The bacteriophage ...
A Nobel Prize-winning Cambridge scientist is among a group of experts who have warned that the creation of mirror life could ...
While the technology to create these organisms is still years away, many are worried about the impact of mirror bacteria.