A young research associate killed by a highly virulent strain of meningococcal disease is believed to have contracted the bacteria from the San Francisco lab where he was working on a vaccine against ...

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have generated strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli that consume just CO 2 as their nutrient source, instead of organic compounds. They ...

Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab—and that's been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics ...

Researchers have identified gut bacteria that can absorb toxic "forever chemicals" in lab mice, according to a new study, potentially offering up a way to control PFAS levels in humans. PFAS, or ...

Sloppy biosafety practices and contaminated worker clothing are the likely ways dangerous bioterror bacteria got out of a high-security lab in Louisiana, according to ...

Bacteria have long been a key source of lifesaving antibiotics, but most species cannot be grown in the lab—leaving their ...

Day after day, workers at Michigan State University care for and feed colonies of evolving bacteria. The original microbes have produced more than... Bacterial Competition In Lab Shows Evolution Never ...

Every week, The Lab Report will feature a different undergraduate research assistant on campus and their experience in the lab. A University of Wisconsin biology student is looking into the ...

Tests indicate a fifth monkey had been exposed to deadly bacteria that was somehow released from a high-security lab at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near New Orleans, according to an ...

After decades of effort, scientists have figured out the dirty little secret to growing a common stomach bug in the lab. Bacteria found in feces help the diarrhea-causing, vomit-triggering norovirus ...

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