Wolbachia bacteria could offer an environmentally-friendly way of controlling mosquitoes and the many diseases they spread.

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Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in collaboration with researchers ...

A video of SpudCell - a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components - containing both a genome and ...

This video explains how viruses and bacteria cause certain communicable diseases to occur, how our bodies protect themselves ...

A Silver Spring mosquito control business is looking to shift the pest management industry to a more eco-friendly practice. Their method? Release 600,000 sterilized mosquitoes in Maryland suburbs just ...

A research team at the University of Greifswald's Research Training Group RTG-PRO "Proteases in pathogen and host: importance ...

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

A research team belonging to the University of Greifswald’s Research Training Group RTG-PRO “Proteases in pathogen and host: importance in infection and inflammation” has discovered a new mechanism ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

Ocean quahogs are a different species from standard hard-shell clams. They're found in colder, deeper water further out in the ocean, and are the largest of the clams. Their shells are usually round, ...