Bacteria possess unique traits with great potential for benefiting society. However, current genetic engineering methods to harness these advantages are limited to a small fraction of bacterial ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains the fourth leading cause of cancer death worldwide, and while the introduction of widespread screening has reduced mortality, current screening techniques have their ...

Scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston have created a bacterial cellulose-based ...

A newly developed bacterial cellulose manufacturing technique could lead to strong, multifunctional materials capable of ...

Protein cages found in nature within microbes help weather its contents from the harsh intracellular environment—an observation with many bioengineering applications. Tokyo Tech researchers recently ...

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) welcomes Assistant Professor Jack Bravo. Bravo brings a solid background in structural biology, biophysics, and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM ...

Pushing into a new chapter of technologically advanced biological sensors, scientists from the University of California San Diego and their colleagues in Australia have engineered bacteria that can ...

What if a single one-dollar dose could cure cancer? A multi-university team of researchers, supported by federal funding, is developing a highly efficient bacterial therapeutic to target cancer more ...