Believe it or not, scientists in India have genetically engineered bacteria to perform mathematical operations, including identifying prime numbers.

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A team tested different combinations of bacterial strains and identified a group of eighteen that suppressed ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections often occur in patients with chronic inflammatory intestinal conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease, and in patients who have taken antibiotics for a ...

Barquera has been awarded a grant of nearly $3.3 million over five years from the National Institute of Health's National ...

James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...

Tomatoes, a staple crop worldwide, are increasingly threatened by biotic stressors such as viruses, fungi, and bacteria, with ...

As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in ...

The new version 5.0 of the AI model EDEN™ features a novel toxin antigen predictor, is trained on an expanded dataset and includes an advanced ...

One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

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