Broccoli sprout extract (BSE) modestly lowered fasting blood glucose in prediabetes, but its effectiveness depended on gut ...

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus.

A recent paper published in Science magazine by researcher Blanca Barquera, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences at ...

Gum disease, or periodontitis, has been linked to poorer cognitive function. Researchers believe this connection may be due ...

Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses ... ”/“CPK5”), which in turn activates the release of reactive oxygen species via the NADPH oxidase (blue). Right: The signal ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many microbes — like plants and animals — are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief. Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to ...

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief. Scientists widely believed that bacteria ...

Salinibacter ruber cells (green) under the microscope. Other colors represent different organisms in the saltern. (Credit: Tomeu Viver) A screenshot from a research meeting. The study's international ...

Led by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, the team behind the study analyzed 471 lake microbe samples collected across 20 years, looking at genetic variations within and between ...

This discovery could also have implications in studies of polymer-secreting conglomerations of bacteria known as biofilms ... seem to matter which bacterial species are introduced, nor does ...