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Brazilian microbiologist Mariangela Hungria's work using beneficial bacteria to boost crop yields wins her the $500,000 World Food Prize.

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A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating ...

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A team has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural process that pushes electrons into their surroundings instead of breathing on oxygen. The findings could ...

Learn how a protein derived from compost bacteria could revolutionize drug delivery and reduce the side effects of ...

This research to cut US reliance on fertilizer would have helped farmers and the environment. Why was it halted?

Five gene clusters have been integrated into the bacterium Vibrio natriegens to engineer a strain that can remediate five ...

The agency wants manufacturers to remove them from the market, contending they harm the gut microbiome, could cause thyroid ...

This file photo shows Sun Yuanxia looking at sugar in a lab at the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology in north ...