difficile infection. In the lab, the researchers then combined bacteria that appeared to repress C. difficile and developed a synthetic version of a fecal transplant. When tested in vitro and given ...

Since it contains a high water content and vital nutrients, it becomes an easy target for microbial growth. Synthetic ...

Bacterial synthetic biology is a scientific discipline that deals with the synthesis of part, or the whole, of bacteria that do not exist in nature in this form. It uses engineering and molecular ...

Synthetic ‘kill switch’ could fast track new immunotherapies, turning bacterial armies against cancer tumours, study shows.

The collective motion of bacteria—from stable swirling patterns to chaotic turbulent flows—has intrigued scientists for decades. When a bacterial swarm is confined in small circular space, stable ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens. The ...

Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells ...

difficile infection. In the lab, the researchers then combined bacteria that appeared to repress C. difficile and developed a synthetic version of a fecal transplant. When tested in vitro and ...

A synthetic microbiome therapy, tested in mice, holds promise as a new treatment for C. difficile, a notoriously difficult-to-treat bacterial infection, according to a team of researchers.