Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...

Light is a fundamental signal affecting every form of life. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks in ...

Bacteria wouldn't be so bad if we could tell them what to do. "Stop spreading! Stop sticking together! Stop fending off our antibiotics!" A new method is starting to allow scientists to do just that, ...

Illustration of Enterobacteriaceae, a family of bacteria that includes the gut-dwelling species Escherichia coli. Scientists suggest that light could be used to manipulate the metabolism of gut ...

Visible light-powered molecular machines could be used to efficiently and effectively treat bacterial infections in vivo by physically disrupting the bacterial membrane. James Tour and fellow ...

HOUSTON - (Dec. 22, 2020) - Baylor College of Medicine researcher Meng Wang had already shown that bacteria that make a metabolite called colanic acid (CA) could extend the lifespan of worms in her ...

Moh El-Naggar, a biophysicist at the University of Southern California (USC), has been fascinated by these organisms for nearly two decades. After years of studying the dynamics of electron transfer ...

Conventional light microscopy has been instrumental for the study of cells and microorganisms; fluorescence microscopy has enabled visualization of even smaller cell features by selectively adding ...