University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against phages—viruses that infect them. In a study published in Nature Microbiology, the ...

For Katherine Dawkins, a Chicago Public Schools learning coach, Bret Harte Elementary School is not just a workplace. After ...

For Katherine Dawkins, a Chicago Public Schools learning coach, Bret Harte Elementary School is not just a workplace. After ...

In a study published in Nature Microbiology, the researchers describe how they used a combination of bioinformatics and laboratory testing - on sediment samples obtained from tanks at Ripley's ...

"For the first time, we could directly compare the microbiomes from, say, Great Lakes surface sediment with sediment from two kilometers below the seafloor," Ruff says. "That's where the beauty of ...

Results: The results indicated that sediment FDOM was sensitive to anthropogenic disturbances, with protein-like substances dominating heavily disturbed areas (69%) and humic-like substances ...

When they become dormant in the bodies of water where they live, they sink to the floor and are eventually covered by sediment, and no oxygen can reach these buried, dormant cells. In this work, the ...

Nearly 45 years after Mount St. Helens’ eruption sent almost 90 billion cubic feet of debris into the upper Toutle Valley, millions of tons of sediment still pour into the Cowlitz River each year.

A revolution is underway in gene editing—and at its forefront is David Liu, an American molecular biologist whose pioneering work is rewriting the building blocks of life with unprecedented ...