The quest to transform biology into a tool for sustainable production is making strides in the field of metabolic engineering ...

Nov. 25, 2024 — With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy -- using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections -- fell into oblivion.

A: Animal; ACE: Accessory cholera enterotoxin; H: Human; ZOT: Zonula occludens toxin.

Giant viruses infecting amoebas, single-celled eukaryotic organisms, can themselves be parasitized by other viruses, called ...

This valuable study proposes a novel rapid-entry mechanism of S. aureus that involves the rapid release of calcium from lysosomes. The strength of the paper lies in a very interesting hypothesis; what ...

Department of Molecular Biology, Kyushu University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan ...

The discipline of classification and taxonomy involves the grouping of organisms into categories based on different properties including size, shape and gene sequences. Classification can help to ...

I went to the big box store in search of a small cactus to grow on my apartment windowsill. But not just any cactus. One that ...

从青蛙体内发现了蛇的基因，到底是怎么回事？其实并不奇怪，这就是基因的水平转移。近年来，研究人员发现了许多基因水平转移的现象，不仅在细菌这样的原核生物身上，也在真核生物，甚至是植物和昆虫之间，都有基因的跳跃。这或许就是生存的智慧。