bacteria

100% of bacteria bounce off surfaces coated with “flea-jumping protein” | It relies on the unique properties of resilin, a natural insect protein that enables fleas to jump hundreds of times their body length.

New strain of bacteria found on China’s Tiangong space station

Molecular clock: bacteria used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis

Bacteria could fill cracks in bricks made from lunar soil on the Moon | Building habitats and maintaining them will be tough, but bacteria could come to the rescue by helping repair cracked bricks made from lunar soil.

Machine learning helps construct an evolutionary timeline of bacteria

Researchers Engineer Bacteria To Produce Plastics

Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics | A bacterial energy storage system is modified to make polymers.

Bacteria make a meal of toxic PFAS 'forever chemicals' | Scientists have identified a bacterium that can eat these chemicals, as well as their byproducts.

Wound dressing uses tiny flowers to go big on killing bacteria | Scientists create a material that kills multiple types of harmful bacteria, and it does so using tiny flowers.

Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression

Bacteria in Polymers Form Cables That Grow into Living Gels

Researchers have discovered that proteins in the mollusk’s blood not only have bacteria-killing properties, raising the possibility of a new antibiotic, but also increase the effectiveness of some existing antibiotics.

System to auto-detect new variants will inform better response to future infectious disease outbreaks | Researchers found a new way to identify more infectious variants of viruses or bacteria that start spreading in humans - including the flu, COVID, whooping cough and tuberculosis.

Why a Bacteria Can Withstand Radiation Which Would Kill a Human

Leading Scientists Urge Ban On Developing 'Mirror-Image' Bacteria

Bacteria on the space station are evolving for life in space

Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria

Bacteria helping to extract rare metals from old batteries in boost for green tech | Team at University of Edinburgh using microbes to recycle lithium, cobalt and other expensive minerals

Bacteria found to produce proteins that act like antifreeze

When an antibiotic fails: Scientists are using AI to target 'sleeper' bacteria