Microbial changes in the gut contribute to a patient’s ability to slim down after gastric bypass surgery.
Microbial changes in the gut contribute to a patient’s ability to slim down after gastric bypass surgery.
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.
Researchers identify the target protein of a recently discovered human coronavirus, shedding light on infection and possible interspecies spread.
A red alga appears to have adapted to extremely hot, acidic environments by collecting genes from bacteria and archaea.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.
The majority of human melanomas contain mutations in a gene promoter, suggesting mutations in regulatory regions may spur some cancers.
Tumor cells rapidly divide by usurping a metabolic trick from normal cell development.
Scientists use virus-free gene therapy on patient-derived stem cells to repair spinal muscular atrophy in mice.