A chemical radar allows bacteria to sense and eliminate predators. Investigating how microorganisms communicate deepens our ...

A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

Novel tools that allow neuron-specific investigations of the structure controlling sleep regulation in fruit flies reveal the extent of neuronal heterogeneity.

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

A light-activated enzyme morphed round starfish egg cells into different shapes. This technology could one day be useful for wound healing therapies.

If you started with a single bacterium that could double every ... expenditures to control pest species (Figure 3). For every organism — whether plant, animal, virus, or bacterium — there ...