By employing a novel technique to examine how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have found that gut bacteria can ...

A team of microbiologists, chemists and pharmaceutical specialists at Shandong University, Guangzhou Medical University, ...

Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, ...