Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have generated strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli that consume just CO 2 as their nutrient source, instead of organic compounds. They ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lab-made ‘mirror bacteria’ could endanger all life on earth, scientists warn “Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all ...

Every week, The Lab Report will feature a different undergraduate research assistant on campus and their experience in the lab. A University of Wisconsin biology student is looking into the ...

Day after day, workers at Michigan State University care for and feed colonies of evolving bacteria. The original microbes have produced more than... Bacterial Competition In Lab Shows Evolution Never ...

PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have for the first time grown the bacteria in a laboratory that causes Citrus Greening Disease, considered the world's most harmful citrus ...

FAIRFAX, California (Reuters) - A young research associate killed by a highly virulent strain of meningococcal disease is believed to have contracted the bacteria from the San Francisco lab where he ...

Marissa Schroeter’s summer undergraduate research explores a global health issue with a local twist. Her work prospects for new antibiotic compounds produced by two bacterial strains collected from ...

Editor’s note: The Lab Report is a weekly series in The Badger Herald’s print edition where we take a deep dive into the (research) lives of students and professors outside the classroom. University ...

To meet the ambitious goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, the U.S. is going to have to get creative with renewable energy. We can double down on long-established technologies like wind, geothermal, ...

We have become much more aware of all of the surfaces we touch daily and what kinds of germs can be on them. The Microbiology Lab at the Medical College of Georgia conducted an experiment with ...

MIT researchers have identified how communities of ocean bacteria cooperate to decompose biodegradable plastics, a finding that could reshape how scientists and manufacturers think about the fate of ...