Roughly one in three uropathogenic E. coli samples collected by a national laboratory turned out to be resistant to multiple ...

The technology at the center of the growing "resolution revolution" has again shown its value to scientists at Yale by ...

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Thanks to lab-grown miniature intestines, researchers at Uppsala University have successfully mapped how aggressive Shigella bacteria infect the human gut. The study opens the door to using cultured ...

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.

Engineered living materials promise to aid efforts in human health, energy and environmental remediation. Now they can be built big and customized with less effort. Bioscientists at Rice University ...

Engineers and biochemists have brought their skills together to make it possible for untrained users to confirm contamination in fluids using a biogel test that changes color in the presence of such ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the pathogenic bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), which is still a major public health problem in many parts of the world. TB tends to manifest in the lungs, but ...

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 ...

Bioscientists turn bacteria into self-assembling building blocks. The macroscale engineered living materials they form could be used to soak up targeted contaminants from the environment or as custom ...