Our immune systems can often eliminate bacterial infections, but sometimes those bacteria are very tough and persistent, and they establish more long-term, chronic infections. Researchers have now ...

Millions of tons of plastic waste accumulate in landfills and oceans every year. One promising response is to engineer ...

Legumes like soybeans, alfalfa, peas, beans, peanuts and many more have a remarkable ability: They can partner with soil ...

LySE 1Assistant Professor Julius Fredens (right) and first author Mr Ong Shujian (left) from the National University of ...

Queensland researchers have discovered that a mutation allows some E. coli bacteria to cause severe disease in people while other bacteria are harmless, a finding that could help to combat antibiotic ...

The approach uses a reprogrammed virus that evolves 160,000 times faster than the host, effectively training bacteria to ...

These factors include genetic and age-related blood mutations, smoking and infection by oral bacteria. Published in Cancer Discovery, the findings provide new insight into the earliest biological ...