Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) actually harbor carnivore-like gut microbiota predominated by bacteria such as Escherichia/Shigella and Streptococcus,...
According to marine biologists led by Dr Kimberly Prather from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a factor that determines the properties of clouds...
A team of biologists, co-led by Dr Lionel Guy and Dr Thijs J. G. Ettema from Uppsala University in Sweden, has discovered a new group of microorganisms...
A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute,...
A new study, led by Dr Laura Crotty Alexander of the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California San Diego, shows that...
An international team of scientists, co-led by Dr Luis Comolli of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Prof Jillian Banfield of the University...
A group of researchers led by Prof J. William Schopf from the University of California, Los Angeles, has discovered a type of deep-sea microorganism that...
A team of synthetic biologists at Yale University has devised a way to ensure genetically modified organisms can be safely confined in the environment.
Design...
A group of researchers led by Prof Kim Lewis of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, has discovered a new antibiotic that eliminates Methicillin-resistant...
Dr Nora Noffke of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, says she has found potential evidence of former life in photos taken by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity.
A...
About 80 million bacteria are transferred during a single 10-second kiss, says a group of researchers from the Netherlands.
Partners who kiss each other...
A team of scientists from Finland and the United Kingdom has engineered the common gut bacteria, Escherichia coli, to generate renewable propane.
This...
A team of researchers from the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom, has discovered a complex assemblage of bacteria and archaea in the waters and...
About half the world’s population carries a newly discovered gut virus, dubbed CrAssphage, says a team of virologists led by Prof Robert Edwards of San...
An awesome mammal from Colombia and Ecuador, a leaf-tailed gecko from Australia and a snail with semi-transparent shell from Croatia are among the new...
According to a team of biologists led by Dr Gregory Dick from the University of Michigan, at deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific, previously...
Scientists at the Yale University School of Medicine have proposed an explanation for how Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever, kills...
Australian chemists have developed a potential new antibiotic that could help in the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria, including the methicillin-resistant...
