Cell culture is a cool technique that lets scientists grow and study cells outside their natural environment It like creating a tiny world where cells can live and grow allowing researchers to watch t ...

In a new breakthrough, researchers at Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SEOULTECH) have developed a novel ...

Astronauts will wriggle into their spacesuits next week to swab outside the International Space Station and see if the lab orbiting 250 miles above Earth is releasing microorganisms into space. The ...

In fact, studies have shown that towels can harbor bacteria such as Staphylococcus and Escherichia coli, both of which are commonly found on human skin and in the gut. If you go too long without ...

At issue are molecules called amphiphiles, which are often used in consumer products to reduce friction against human skin. For example ... then began a series of experiments to explore whether ...

InProceedings{AAMAS17-khandelwal, author = {Piyush Khandelwal and Peter Stone}, title = {Multi-Robot Human Guidance: Human Experiments and Multiple Concurrent Requests}, booktitle = {International ...

But for a male ... Genetically-engineered human skin bacteria can make mice less attractive to mosquitoes for 11 days. Mosquitoes transmit a host of deadly diseases, including malaria, West Nile ...

The new molecules target a metabolic pathway that only occurs in bacterial cells, thus sparing human cells. The team published its results in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition ...

Studies have shown that towels can quickly become contaminated with bacteria commonly found on human skin, but also with those found in our guts. Even after washing, our bodies are still covered ...

Scientists have adapted a sensing platform to detect and even measure chemicals at low enough concentrations to have use outside the lab ... in the human body for nucleic acids and bacteria.