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

A Selwyn District farm is defying convention.

Sugars come in all shapes and sizes. We need them for energy and we enjoy them, but complex variants may also be used as ...

Bacteria like A. borkumensis are important for degrading oil pollution, so these findings are of significant interest.

SHENZHEN -- Chinese scientists have successfully engineered a novel bacteria strain capable of simultaneously degrading five ...

Mary Gilmore, Staff Writer Years ago, scientists discovered a brand-new species of bacteria that appeared to breathe by ...

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

The other bacteria that is sold to the homeowners is Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt. Bt is the most used biological pesticide ...

A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin identified how these bacteria expel electrons externally.

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 ...

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

Thrush and bacterial vaginosis (BV) are common vaginal infections that can cause symptoms including abnormal discharge. They are also both easily treatable, but Deborah Bateson says because there ...