24+ min ago   (707+ words) Detecting dangerous bacteria in a patient’s sample can take hours or even days, and the fastest molecular tests demand expensive laboratory infrastructure and highly trained staff....

8+ hour, 13+ min ago   (620+ words) Every heartbeat, every twitch of a fin, and every dividing cell in a fish embryo depends on a molecular machine so ancient that its origins trace back billions of years. Oxidative phosphorylation, or OXPHOS, is the process by which cells…...

9+ hour, 43+ min ago   (602+ words) Every drop of natural water, every handful of soil, and even the interiors of our own bodies teem with protozoa, the single-celled predators that spend their lives hunting and consuming bacteria....

1+ day, 39+ min ago   (792+ words) A dangerous secret is hiding inside bacteria that laboratory tests declare to be susceptible....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (829+ words) A team of researchers in Spain and Switzerland has developed two complementary genetic tools that can recover hundreds of individual integron gene cassettes from bacteria in a single experiment, opening a vast and largely unexplored reservoir of microbial genes to…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (86+ words) Phosphorus is one of those elements that rarely makes headlines, yet civilization depends on it almost entirely. The world’s food supply is built on phosphate fertilizers, and those fertilizers are mined from phosphate rock, a finite resource concentrated in a…...