A new type of enzyme has been discovered in hundreds of bacterial species, and researchers say it helps reveal how bacteria invade organisms. Reporting in Nature Communications, this work may help us ...

A class of thousands of chemicals known as PFAS (for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) was created in the 1930s by chemists at 3M and Dupont who were studying chemical reactions. They ...

This type of medium is both selective and differential. The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas of high salt concentration (plate on the left in the ...

Identification of microbes joins together the discipline of microbiology with the study of infectious diseases. Methods of reliable and accurate microbial identification are valuable to a wide range ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance ...

The global microbiology culture market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 6% during the forecast period. This growth is driven by several factors, including ...