Princeton molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler and graduate student Justin Silpe have identified a virus, VP882, that can listen in on bacterial conversations — and then, in a twist like somet... Read more
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in targeting and killing a single bacterial species (E. coli) without causing harm to the surrounding community of commensal bact... Read more
The lack of clean water in many areas around the world is a persistent, major public health problem. One day, tiny robots could help address this issue by zooming around contaminated water a... Read more
A scientist describes his unconventional approach to food safety A cow’s rumen has an incredibly thick population of microbes, somewhere between 10 billion and 100 billion microbes pe... Read more
A team of scientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) has discovered the secret recipe for ‘antidotes’ that could neutralize the deadly plant to... Read more
THE bean sprouts contaminated with a particularly nasty strain of Escherichia coli, a bug that normally lives quietly in the gut of humans and other animals, have now sickened over 3,250 peo... Read more
The E. coli outbreak that started in Germany is getting bigger and a lot scarier. Ten countries have reported a total of 1,614 severe cases to the European branch of the World Health Organiz... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Synthetic biology has allowed scientists to tweak E. coli to produce fuels from sugar and, more sustainably, cellulose The bacteria responsible for most cases of food poi... Read more