Cancer treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation have saved many lives, but they also have limits and side ...

Scientists have engineered bacteria that thrive inside tumors, using oxygen sensing to destroy cancer from within.

A study on the new synthetic cells titled "Living material assembly of bacteriogenic protocells" has been published in the journal Nature. Researchers from the University of Bristol in the United ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

A living motor made by combining different parts from bacteria is one of the smallest ever built, and could one day power tiny robots. Many types of bacteria are propelled by natural motors that power ...

On sunken leaves in the waters of a Caribbean mangrove swamp, researchers discovered a bacterium that challenges the prevailing view of bacterial cell size; counter to the notion that microbes are ...

Scientists found a soil microbe that both releases and absorbs electricity, pointing to new renewable energy technologies.

As a grad student in cell biology, Shaeri Mukherjee was always on the lookout for new ways to fiddle with cells’ internal structures. It was the early 2000s, and Mukherjee was working in Dennis ...