Every year, bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In ...

A new intranasal DNA vaccine may give the immune system an extra weapon against tuberculosis by targeting bacteria that can ...

Scientists have uncovered thousands of bacterial DNA fragments hidden inside cockroaches for millions of years. The ...

An experimental DNA-based nasal vaccine has shown promising results against tuberculosis (TB) in animal studies, raising ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in ...

WASHINGTON, 4th July, 2026 (WAM) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed an experimental therapeutic DNA vaccine for ...

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...

Scientists pieced together the genetic history of Acinetobacter baumannii — a notoriously stubborn hospital pathogen — using ...

Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...

Mary-Dell Chilton, Ph.D., an American pioneer in plant sciences known as the “Queen of the Agrobacterium,” died on June 24, ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...