How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

Researchers have now developed a new single-cell genome technique to understand how bacteria interact and exchange genetic material, including antibiotic resistance genes at the individual cell level.

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Using a novel method, Weizmann Institute researchers map 16 types of simultaneous changes in dozens of samples; findings can ...

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human 'lung-on-chip' model using stem cells ...

A study offers evidence that a single bacterial species -- the host of the phage -- can maintain a diverse community of competing phage species. Knowing how more than one kind of virus can survive ...