Ending hunger is about getting food from farms to forks safely, which has long depended on refrigeration and cold chains. Since scaling these up would pose climate risks, we should look to innovative ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems.

In a Stanford-led study published in Nature on Jan. 20, researchers used a “periodic table” of cell types to detect ... collected samples and analyzed microbial DNA. The results indicated ...

No matter how they "make you feel," in the long term, they're just not worth it. The reason why may surprise you.

A new study from the University of California suggests that the International Space Station (ISS) may be too clean, potentially harming astronauts' health by lacking helpful microbes. Researchers ...

Many proposed Alzheimer’s treatments make use of the immune system to clear these plaques before they lead to irreversible damage, but the process is more complex than simply using immune cells ...

Dyadic's microbial gene expression and protein production platforms are based on the highly productive and scalable fungus Thermothelomyces heterothallica (formerly Myceliophthora thermophila). Our ...