Breathing, at its core, is about moving electrons. In humans and most other organisms, oxygen acts as the final destination ...

A multinational research team, including Professor David W Graham from Durham University's Biosciences Department, have ...

Gluconobacter oxydans is key in carbon capture and bioleaching, with genetic modifications improving metal extraction ...

Regina Bailey is a science writer, educator ... Plants, animals, and decomposers (bacteria and fungi) return CO2 to the atmosphere through respiration. The movement of carbon through biotic ...

Indeed, protein aggregation not only helps bacteria to cope with proteotoxic stresses like heat shocks or oxidative stress, but a growing number of studies suggest that it also improves survival ...

College of Marine Life Sciences, MoE Key Laboratory of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China ...

The novel strain is closely related to a bacteria found in soil, sewage, food and human stool. Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 Bacteria in a petri dish similar to that swabbed with sterile wipes on China ...

In 2018, NASA scientists discovered four previously unknown strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria hiding inside the International Space Station's toilets, each with a suite of new adaptations ...

Swabs from China's Tiangong space station reveal traces of a bacterium unseen on Earth, with characteristics that may help it function under stressful environmental conditions hundreds of kilometers ...

Chinese scientists have discovered a new microbe that developed on board the county’s Tiangong space station, according to a new study. The strain, officially named niallia tiangongensis, is a ...

Top longevity scientist Eric Topol, author of the new book Super Agers, tells National Geographic which biohacks for a longer life are backed by science—and which you can skip. Skip the ...