Medically reviewed by Jamie Johnson, RDN Key Takeaways Natto is a traditional Japanese fermented soybean dish made with a ...

Because natural resources are always limited, the right strategy decides about success in life. This also applies to spore-forming bacteria. Bacillus subtilis can survive unfavorable living conditions ...

Researchers at National Taiwan University have discovered a versatile enzyme from Bacillus subtilis that efficiently attaches phosphate groups to a wide variety of phenolic molecules, offering a ...

In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in transcribing DNA into RNA, and ribosomes, which bring up the rear translating ...

A new study shows that a 'good' bacterium commonly found in probiotic digestive supplements helps eliminate Staphylococcus aureus, a type of bacteria that can cause serious antibiotic-resistant ...

For decades, Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae have dominated industrial bioproduction. Yet Gram-positive bacteria—particularly actinomycetes ...