A team of University of Manchester undergraduate students have returned from an international competition in Paris with a ...

Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a ...

The discovery could pave the way to starving antibioitc-resistant bacteria without new drugs or harmful chemicals.

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

A recent study conducted by scientists at ESPOL has unveiled the biotechnological potential of microorganisms from Antarctica ...

Researchers explain how individual cells are capable of rudimentary forms of learning previously thought exclusive to ...

Houseflies greatly amplify the risk of human exposure to harmful microorganisms. Flies caught in three hospices carried ...

The plants around us use a clever strategy when they are exposed to light that is too bright: their chloroplasts rearrange within their cells and collectively cover one another, in such a way that ...

Delving deeper into the artwork's background, Lawrence elaborated: "As you can see, it's signed on the bottom right, Pili Pili and he came from a very working class family, he trained as a plumber ...

Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...

Bacterial immune evasion is the process by which bacteria avoid and antagonize the bacterial host response, which is mediated by the host's immune system. Bacterial superantigens (sAg) have been ...