Many soil microbes play a vital role in ecosystems, as they help plants access nutrients and water and assist in stress ...

Apart from carrying the information to encode proteins in, RNA molecules can adopt intricate 2D and 3D structures.

Macrophages extend various cellular protrusions to capture and engulf bacteria. This study identifies dendrite-like pseudopods as a new type of branched protrusions formed by macrophages to enhance ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own — and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

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On the heels of the first pulsed-field ablation device to win approval for atrial fibrillation ablation, a novel version of the technology appears to improve the durability of AF control over 1 ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the ...

He isolated rod-shaped bacteria from sputum coughed up by people with TB. Koch’s discovery of M. tuberculosis soon persuaded the medical world that the disease was infectious rather than hereditary.

The bacteria, retrieved from samples obtained during the Shenzhou 15 crewed mission, appear to have survived several months aboard China's Tiangong space station in 2022 and 2023.

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well adapted to conditions there.