Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
Researchers find remarkably active bacteria in the Mariana Trench, where they live under pressure 1,000 times greater than at the surface.
Rock samples from deep within the Earth’s oceanic crust contain chemosynthetic microbial life.
A red alga appears to have adapted to extremely hot, acidic environments by collecting genes from bacteria and archaea.
Normal proteins with regions resembling disease-causing prions are responsible for an inherited disorder that affects the brain, muscle, and bone.
Researchers have created a molecule that helps nanoparticles evade immune attack and could improve drug delivery.
Disruptions in the interaction between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA can lead to deficiencies in the mitochondrial energy-generating process, affecting fitness.
Protein aggregates in the brains of some people with dementia or motor neuron disease have a surprising origin.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.
Reprogrammed stem cells are not attacked by the immune system, or are they?