A giant inflatable E. coli has appeared in central Brno, highlighting the city’s electron microscopy tradition and the upcoming Days of Electron Microscopy festival.

Over at the University of Edinburgh, scientists have discovered a way to turn plastic rubbish into a medicine that can help people with Parkinson's disease.

A political battle over suspected hospice fraud in California has pushed a Van Nuys office building into the national spotlight after records revealed 89 hospices are registered there. The building ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

But when antibiotics are ineffective, some rod-like bacteria, such as E. coli, elongate as a stress response, lengthening without reproducing. These long E. coli cells can swim their way into tubes, ...

Researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine have uncovered how an imbalanced gut microbiome escalates the production of ...

Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer globally; however, current treatments are limited by disease complexity. A study published in the open-access journal in PLOS Biology by Tianyu ...

Scientists have engineered probiotic bacteria to act as tumor-seeking drug factories. In mice, these bacteria infiltrated tumors and produced a cancer-fighting drug right where it was needed. This ...

Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer globally; however, current treatments are limited by disease complexity.

MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside superconductors. By compressing this normally unwieldy light into a tiny region, ...

At first glance, E. coli is often associated with foodborne illness and contamination warnings. But new research conducted at Wilkes University is helping reshape that perception by exploring the ...