University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...

In this article, we discuss transformation, bacterial transformation in particular, and how scientists can utilize it to ...

A plate containing E. coli shows a purple pigment in response to levels of zinc. The bacterium could be used to detect nutritional deficiencies in resource-limited areas of the world. Purple would ...

Some notoriously difficult to treat infections may not be as resistant to antibiotics as has been thought, according to new ...

Some notoriously difficult-to-treat infections may not be as resistant to antibiotics as has been thought, according to new ...

Bacterial foodborne outbreaks in the U.S. increased while viral outbreaks declined between 2014 and 2022, with environmental ...

Fairburn explains that in the absence of an active anti-phage defence, viral infections inhibit bacterial growth and cause a ...

Instead of relying on traditional Petri plate experiments, researchers like Scott Weady, a computational biologist at the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation, create simulations to model ...

The purpose of this practical is to investigate the effect of antiseptics or antibiotics on bacterial growth using agar plates and measuring zones of inhibition. This allows the selected bacteria ...