While the world was busy arguing over AI-generated art and essays, a team at the Arc Institute and Stanford University was ...

Bacteria possess unique traits with great potential for benefiting society. However, current genetic engineering methods to harness these advantages are limited to a small fraction of bacterial ...

Columbia University researchers have developed a "bacterial suicide squad" that targets tumors by combining discoveries in cancer immunology with sophisticated genetic engineering. The researchers ...

Cancer tumors are particularly adept at evading the body’s immune response, making treatment difficult. A new study has genetically engineered a common gut bacteria, enabling it to seek out and ...

Bioplastics from natural polymers could replace petroleum-based plastics, helping us keep nonbiodegradable plastics out of landfills and waterways. But there’s a problem: The most promising ...

Gut microbes engineered to dim their fluorescence under stress offered a real-time, noninvasive biosensor to track gut health in mice.

Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains the fourth leading cause of cancer death worldwide, and while the introduction of widespread screening has reduced mortality, current screening techniques have their ...

For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...