Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria--such as how they synthesise their protective capsules--is essential for developing new ...

Weissman was jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Katalin Karikó for discoveries which made COVID-19 ...

SINGAPORE – A new programme has launched in Singapore to formally study the applications of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in vaccine ...

Increased antibiotic use can lead, seemingly paradoxically, to more problematic infections, as the bacteria evolve to resist the treatment. The answer to this antimicrobial resistance, which the ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." ...

First-year pre-medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) had the opportunity to identify and collect ...

Advances in Omic technologies are revolutionizing our understanding of transplantation and transfusion medicine, providing new perspectives on genetic, ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

Judit Pénzes, Ph.D., a virologist, joined the Texas A&M Department of Entomology as an assistant professor specializing in insect virology.

Finally, the widespread deployment of AI will catalyze change in almost every aspect of healthcare, including using AI to ...

By incorporating healthspan science into clinical practice, some doctors are navigating a gray area between mainstream ...

The model employed by North Carolina’s regenerative medicine ecosystem can be adapted by other accelerators and organisations ...