After more than a decade of work, researchers have reached a major milestone in their efforts to re-engineer life in the lab, ...

This study details the design and optimization of synXVI, a synthetic yeast chromosome, overcoming growth challenges through ...

Artificial intelligence (AI), including its offshoots of deep learning and machine learning, uses computers to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as language generation ...

The artificial sweetener neotame negatively regulates the intestinal epithelium directly through T1R3-signaling and indirectly through pathogenic changes to model gut bacteria. Front Nutr.

Alan Thompson, an expert in artificial intelligence and former chairman of Mensa International, runs the Conservative Countdown to AGI web page, and has increased the countdown to achieving AGI as ...

The smooth trips made for a haunting vision of the potential future of artificial intelligence. Inside the cabs, there was gentle New Age music and no one in the driver’s seat. Such could be the ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo say they've made a breakthrough in introducing a new trait into bacteria found in wastewater, giving them the ability to break down microplastics.

If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a brushing, you've encountered biofilm -- a slimy bacterial layer that clings to surfaces. In medical settings, biofilms make infections harder to ...

If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a brushing, you’ve encountered biofilm—a slimy bacterial layer that clings to surfaces. In medical settings, biofilms make infections harder to treat ...

In particular, artificial intelligence (AI ... a type of protein that binds to pathogens such as viruses, parasites, and bacteria, or foreign substances to neutralize them.

Our results suggest that what we eat is potentially very important in controlling the likelihood of infection with a range of bacteria.