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 ...

An analysis of an unusual enzyme could result in a new generation of antimicrobial medicines to counter antibiotic resistance. Key details in the enzyme-driven biosynthesis of a natural molecule with ...

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 ...

Tuberculosis led to the death of about 1.3 million people around the world in 2022 alone. From 2022 to 2023, there was a concerning 15 percent increase in tuberculosis cases in California.

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and EU exit put “pressure” on the United Kingdom’s main lab for food microbiology, according to an annual report. The UK’s national reference laboratory (NRL) for food ...