In 2013, farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia began to notice something unsettling: a familiar variety of wheat was failing ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic ...

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Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to public health, but these cryogenically frozen germs might be more of a help than a hindrance.

Flexible plastic films stamped with dense nanopillar arrays mechanically rupture viral particles, reducing infectivity by 94% ...

A multinational research team led by Professor Tong Zhang from the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at ...

In a huge global study led by University of Cambridge researchers, a single group of bacteria—named CAG-170—has repeatedly shown up in high numbers in the gut microbiomes of healthy people. CAG-170 is ...

SINGAPORE – While it is well known that age, smoking, oral bacteria and genetic mutations can individually cause stomach cancer, a recent study has found that when they occur together in one person, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor Patrick Tan (left), dean at Duke-NUS Medical School, and Professor Yeoh Khay Guan, National University Health System ...

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing ...

1 Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Materials, ...