“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the ...

16, 1863 -- two months after his 13th birthday. He remains the youngest recipient of the United States' highest and most cherished military award for valor in the country’s history. "On the ...

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

In another experiment, bacteria thrived when the proteasome functioned normally but the peptides produced within it were destroyed. The effectiveness of the peptides was also demonstrated in mice ...

For fraternal twins who share 50 percent of their genes, this rate drops to around 2 percent. Scientists have long suspected that gut bacteria may influence a person's risk of developing multiple ...

Suzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Anhui University of Science and Technology, 168 Taifeng Street, Shannan New District, Huainan, Anhui 232000, P. R. China Suzhou First People’s ...

Bacteria consumed by immune cells become part of the cell Date: February 26, 2025 Source: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Summary: Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't ...

TABLE 1. Status of macroalgae research. This table provides a non-exhaustive overview of key macroalgae research domains discussed in this review, together with selected species. Superscript numbers ...

SpyTag fusion proteins were expressed in E. coli BL21 (DE3) strains and purified by nickel column. Bacteria were grown in LB broth at 37°C with constant shaking (220 r.p.m) until OD 600 of 0.6 before ...

Together these results demonstrate that specific signaling can result from a promiscuous enzyme. Microscopic organisms known as bacteria are found in virtually every environment on the planet. One ...